newly hatched duckling questions

[Miss Lydia]

It’ll fall off on its own too.

 

[Ratchnick]

At this point i can't distinguish between wh and saxony, but how big were the eggs? Larger then a chicken egg by s bunch?
If wh then they are sexable by bill color for 2 or 3 days post hatch. Dark bills are male, those seem to be female

 

[AnnaFB]

At this point i can't distinguish between wh and saxony, but how big were the eggs? Larger then a chicken egg by s bunch?
If wh then they are sexable by bill color for 2 or 3 days post hatch. Dark bills are male, those seem to be female

 

[AnnaFB]

They were bigger than chicken eggs and white.

 

[AnnaFB]

View attachment 1947207 Possibly WH since I don’t see an eye stripe. That waterer will be fine first week then you’ll want to make something like this put it On a tray to keep the mess contained. Ducklings and ducks need to be able to dunk their heads to clean their nares an eyes especially when eating.They sure are adorable.

Thank you!

 

[AnnaFB]

If it's dry snip it off close to belly.
Any other eggs in there?

No other eggs. We started off with 7 but only 2 were viable and luckily those 2 made it!

 

[Miss Lydia]

Be sure to update on them with pics!

 

[AnnaFB]

One last thing (and again thanks so much for all the advice) but he older one is doing some seriously aggressive preening to the younger one. I thought it was maybe to do with the fact that umbilical cord was still attached or it had yolk from the egg on it and the other one was simply cleaning it but the younger one keeps moving away from the bigger one who keeps following it and pecking at it and at its face etc. Should I be concerned? Could it be attacking it?

 

[Miss Lydia]

Any way you can separate where they can still be close but the bigger one can’t be annoying?

 

[AnnaFB]

Not really annoyingly. There aren’t two working plugs close enough together.