Fred4761
Chirping
- Jan 4, 2018
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Hi, I have had ducklings hatching under mother duck today. I last checked on them a few hours ago and when I checked again the Mama duck was squawking. Meat ants were all over the last remaining duckling that was still hatching. The other hatched ducklings are fine and the ants aren’t interested in them. When I lasted checked this duckling was about halfway hatched out of the shell and now the shell is separated from it. I thought the duckling must have died so reached it to remove it and dunked it into the duck pond to wash of the ants before disposing of it. It made a few small cheeps and I realised it was still alive and slowly blinking but only one eye, the other is closed. It still has a small blob of the yolk sac attached and it seems as though the ants only ate at its bill. I didn’t want to leave it out to die alone or get eaten by ants so thought I would wrap it up and nurse it until it dies. That was an hour ago. It is still alive and doesn’t seem any better or worse. My question is should I be doing something to help try to save it or is there no hope.