Need help with lock down! :) duck egg

[salsan20]

Have had 4 duck eggs quit without pipping, 4 to go that havent pipped, my last mystery chick hatched with a tiny bit of yolk unabsorbed and is very weak so not optimistic for him, and then I have the 2 khaki cambells and 3 noisy chicks who are all doing very well! Hows Codi doing?

 

[lissygirl]

I'm sorry about the weak chick. I was worried about unabsorbed yolk. But he could pull through it. Congrats on the rest of them! Any more pics? I'd love to see them! Keep me posted on the other ducks Cody is doing great. He's making himself at home in his brooder and loves any attention he can get out if us. I'm a little worried he'll be lonely since he's on his own, but we've been handling him a lot. He gets upset when we first walk away after putting him back (we started calling him the Cody Alarm because he sounds like an alarm!) but he calms down after a few minutes and goes about his business

 

[salsan20]

The others are doing fine, little worried ducky number two seems so much quieter but maybe thats personality. You can see most of the yolk has now absorbed and there is just a red raw button left which Ive covered with micropore tape to keep it clean and every hour he is stronger, but have seperated him as the others keep climbing on him and trying to pull the tape off. When he is stronger they can go together. More quitters this morning so cursing the postie. Looks like they tried to pip but couldnt reach the air sack and im not sure on vertical hatching with ducks. One khaki left Im waiting to see if he survives but might be the ones that are out are my hatch. Codi sounds lovely, he is a cutie!

 

[salsan20]

 

[lissygirl]

They're darling! Which ones are you keeping? Have you named them?

 

[salsan20]

I have named the egg yolk one miracle as he is getting stronger every hour as you can see as he is the very dark one in the bunch. The first duck is flubber as he is unbelievably active and the others are unnamed as of yet. I want to name the other duck something to do with demure or tranquillity as she is ultra peaceful. The other 3 chicks all have distinct seperate personalities but I cant lock on to what to call them! It would help if I had an idea what they were going to look like lol.

Hows Codi, more pictures please as he is so cute!

 

[lissygirl]

Miracle is a perfect name They look great! Isn't it interesting how they can have such different personalities? Any idea what kind of ducks they are?

 

[salsan20]

2 khaki cambells, it is surprising! Never really thought twice about keeping chickens until a few months ago and then it was the lure of fresh eggs! Equally didnt expect the chick eggs to be fertile as they were just sold as fresh eggs. I do wish a couple of my magpie duck eggs had hatched though.

 

[lissygirl]

That's right, you said they were khakis, sorry! They look perfect, so cute

 

[luvmypets]

Beautiful
Babies everyone!