Desperately Trying to Hatch Ducklings

[ColleenRyan]

 

[ColleenRyan]

I tried to get more pics today but they were very excited to see me and zooming all around their space. The heat lamp makes such awful shadows! I’ll get better pics for everyone!

 

[Miss Lydia]

Those are great pics and just adorable little ones. Have you had them outside yet?

 

[ColleenRyan]

Oh, and I only ever saw my Pekin mating with my girl but some of the babies have mallard faces with the stripes. I’m not sure if he was getting some action too before he disappeared but how cool would it be to have mallard mixes too!! Some are so much more yellow like their dad and the others are much more tie dyed

 

[CSAchook]

View attachment 1425675 View attachment 1425676 View attachment 1425677 Here are some more photos of the babies! They’re always so cuddled with each other it’s hard to get individual photos but surprisingly I can tell all of them apart! I’ve never seen a Pekin / cayuga combo but their beaks are become more tie dyed looking by the day! I’m so excited to see how they change as they grow up. I’m not sure if people breed “mutt” ducklings a lot but for me personally I find it more exciting!! I’ll get some better ones tomorrow that show off their super cool markings. Just checking— should I be taking them out and holding them daily or are they still too young to stay out of their heat lamp for that long? Right now I’ll put their food in my hand and they all come and eat right from my hand and they love nibbling at the rings I wear, it’s adorable. I only take one out at a time for about a minute to give him / her some love but then he / she starts peeping and decides it’s time to go back to the ducky pack

Thank you for the photos and update. They are precious!!!

 

[casportpony]

I tried to get more pics today but they were very excited to see me and zooming all around their space. The heat lamp makes such awful shadows! I’ll get better pics for everyone!

 

[casportpony]

Thank you for the photos and update. They are precious!!!

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[WVduckchick]

I tried to get more pics today but they were very excited to see me and zooming all around their space. The heat lamp makes such awful shadows! I’ll get better pics for everyone!

It's safe to turn off or move the heat lamp for a few minutes to take some pics. a little time here and there with just room temperature is ok. I could tell a big difference in the down of the ducklings that my hen hatched as opposed to the ones I hatched in the incubator. The ones from outside had nice thick underfluff that grew in so quickly that my indoor babies didn't have.

 

[ColleenRyan]

Those are great pics and just adorable little ones. Have you had them outside yet?

I haven’t taken them outside yet they’re still very tiny babies! They get nightly baths though and they dive and swim under water and zoom around, so cute!

 

[ColleenRyan]

This is a video I took of them in the bath last night! It’s such a cute little video! Near the end one of the babies gets up and flaps his tiny wings and that’s my absolute favorite thing they do, so funny and adorable.