Moma duck wont take care of baby just hatched

[Anna verano]

I first would like to wish everyone is doing well in the crisis we are all facing .
My mama duck laid eggs first time and only 1 hatched & she doesn't want to take care of the baby , I caught her grabbing the baby by his legs & slinging baby around .. i took the baby inside with me .. please give me advice on how to take care of the baby .. thank you so much ..

 

[Miss Lydia]

I’m sorry about the duckling being rejected. I had that happen here also we used a large plastic dog crate for a brooder put towels inside for first week they can be shook washed an reused. I set up a heat lamp and placed the brooder up on a table to keep my dogs out. I had old widow screens I used over the top. The duckling will need at least 85* warmth first week with heat lamp at on end and food an water at the other end. A stuffed animal and a secure mirror will help make the duckling secure feeling. A chick waterer will work 1 st week slightly warm water at first. Feed should be duckling starter or chick starter or all flock crumble.

 

[Miss Lydia]

What breed and any chance any more will hatch?

 

[Anna verano]

What breed and any chance any more will hatch?

A muscovy, she was more interested in the other 2 eggs that haven't hatched than she is in this baby .. I don't have a heating lamp would a heating pad work ..

 

[Miss Lydia]

Yes cover with a towel and start it out on low setting place a thermometer on top so you don’t roast the duckling. It was a muscovy here also.

 

[Anna verano]

Here is the little precocious angel

 

[Isaac 0]

What a sweetie!

Are the other babies still under her? If you have an incubator it might be a good idea to put the ones that haven't finished zipping in there, if she attacked that duckling I'm sure she will attack the rest.

 

[Miss Lydia]

When my Muscovy was hatching Runners last year not same as when it happened years ago. I just brought each egg in as they started hatching and since I don't have an incubator I place the hatching duckling under the heat lamp inside of a small cardboard box with soft cloth under. She had already smashed one so I just kept going back and checking till they were almost ready to get out of the shell. I know not the ideal way but all I had.

 

[Anna verano]

What a sweetie!

Are the other babies still under her? If you have an incubator it might be a good idea to put the ones that haven't finished zipping in there, if she attacked that duckling I'm sure she will attack the rest.

I don't think the other 2 eggs are going to hatch but she insists they are .. out of 10 eggs she only kept 3 the other 7 she rolled out the nest .. this is her first batch .. she is very sweet and let's me pet her , I don't understand why she is being mean to her babies she seems afraid of them or just doesn't know what to do next ..

 

[Isaac 0]

If you do what @Miss Lydia says, I'd put a thermometer under the heat lamp and try to get temp around 99f by adjusting the distance of the heat lamp to the eggs, Maybe put a humidifier near the eggs to try to get the humidity around 60-70 % a water bowl might help raise the humidity also.