Please help! Is this normal for a new hatched duck?

[AnimalLover4701]

Also dry feeding egg yolk with syringe

 

[DuckyDonna]

Also dry feeding egg yolk with syringe

This thread is from 2018 but your advice was good!

 

[Jamie5190]

Thanks, everyone for all the good advice. The soupy food & water mix worked well & she's a good eater now. I can't believe this baby made it, with the very tough start she had. "Piper" is now a very healthy, happy duckling. Here's a pic of her when she was born, & then after a bath & blow-dry:View attachment 1353909 View attachment 1353910 (With her mirror & sock-teddy):
View attachment 1353911 Taking a nap on my neck:View attachment 1353913 She was the only one & she was craving contact, so we took turns cuddling her & making sure she didn't get lonely. She has us trained now & talks constantly & cries when she wants attention. Following some other advice here, on "only ducklings", we gave her a small mirror for company, which she loves & chats happily with her reflection for hours. We'd also read to give her a teddy, but we thought that was kinda silly- until she wouldn't calm down at night & constantly screamed unless we let her cuddle with us. Since she was bonded to me, I thought something with my scent on it might give her comfort, so I balled up the pair of socks I'd been wearing, (into the shape/size of a small duck) & put it next to her mirror. She immediately cuddled up with her sock-teddy & fell asleep talking to her reflection! She spent the next couple of days with her mirror & teddy for company, until we found her another lonely baby. Her new roommate is 3x her size, so we were a bit worried the new duck might bully the smaller one, but she's turned out to be a very good influence on Piper, and has been teaching her how to do all sorts of duck-stuff. Piper absolutely loves her new big sister. I was able to remove her sock today, & then the mirror later on in the night, once the two sacked-out together. We named the new duckling "Teddy".View attachment 1353926

This may seem silly but I teared up reading this! you are such a wonderfully kind person to give this tiny helpless duckling so much love! Bless your heart!

 

[Isaac 0]

I am new to hatching ducks but I recently had my first buckling hatch it had hatch three days early it hadn’t completely Zoerb the egg yolk so I wrapped it in a rag put it in a box and put a heat lamp over it all I did was kind of cover it with the rag with the its but still in the egg I waited a day and tried to give her some water with a syringe she was very bad at it at first but then realized what it was I had to put it on her beak to make her realize it anyways I have been giving her watered down chick starter and I gave it to her in a bowl today and she ate it she just started that today she was drinking and eating on her own also she couldn’t walk until yesterday she hatched on the 18th and slowly she started standing and wading around now she is jumping and be loud and being obnoxious I didn’t think she would live but she’s doing great

Glad to hear your duckling is doing better.

 

[KristysBoys]

Chiming in on this old thread to say. YAS! The mash worked wonders for a duckling I had to help out of its shell and was doing just what the OP's duckling was doing. Bless this thread for existing.