Thanks all, 6 out of 6 set and they hatched. The last one when I woke this morning was a little shrink wrapped, and as the others were out, I decided to help him, as his beak, wing, little foot were showing but the membrane was white and hard.
I took away a little of the shell, and put him back. He hatched on his own and dried some. But he's not so good. The others are now eating, drinking, making all they can of every bit of water!!!!
But he is still sleepy. He wakes when I talk to him, but his head wobbles, and his eyes open, but they are still half covered with something other than his eye lid. He's had sugar water and perked up briefly, but not to the extent of the others. Feel so sorry for him. He isn't walking yet, but will shuffle to occasionaly join the other 5 to sleep. Other than that, they all snuggle up and sleep and he is left on his own. I hope he improves by tomorrow. I also rang the lady I bought these "Aylesbury Eggs" from and explained they are chocolate brown and asked what other ducks she had as they were not was I was expecting to hatch! She only has Aylesbuys and Khaki Campbells and they are kept apart in different breeding pens, so she can only say that she mixed the eggs up when collecting. They are beautiful ducklings though, and I wouldn't change them for anyhting now! I've read these can be nice ducks given input & interaction from early on.
Take a warm cotton ball and wipe his eyes, if he's got crusty stuff on him, then he couldn't have been shrink wrap sounds more like sticky. Give him a drop of vitamins, Polyvisol without iron is really good stuff.
Avoid swimming for at least one week and check his vent, if he's vent is swelled once that goes down, he'll start walking and move about more..
he'll get better , and wait which end are they suppose to hatch ? Pointed end or rounded end?
