Conolii0316
In the Brooder
- Apr 16, 2015
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About a week ago, an empty nest with eggs was right in front of my house. I found out about the nest around Monday morning. I was a little bit worried because I didn't see any female bird sitting on the nest. When I came back home from work around night when darkness have fallen, I've went to check on the nest, and still there was no bird guarding, or sitting on the nest. I tried walking around my house's front-yard/back-yard to see if any ducks were wandering around. Unfortunately I did not spot any of them. There were two eggs in the nest, and judging by its cream color and the size a little bigger than a chicken's egg, I assumed that it was a mallard duck's egg. I didn't want to just leave the two eggs to die, so I brought them in to my house. I had a home-made incubator, so I put both of the eggs in there. It's been a week since they've been sitting in the incubator. I was losing hope when I saw no development inside the eggs, but a few days ago, I started to see some veins sprouting in one of the eggs! I was really worried that the eggs were already dead when I saved them, because they were in the cold nest without any warmth for at least a day. But the other egg seems to be a Yolker, so I think I'll need to get rid of it in a few days. But my main concern is, that if I can, I want to let the duck back to the wild when it grows to an adult. I know a big lake near my house, that seems to be a gathering place for geese and mallard ducks. I was planning to maybe take it there, but I have no experience in letting animals back to the wild. Can anybody tell me what I should do? We're fine taking care of it till the end, but I feel bad that it's going to live it's life with no other mallard ducks around him/her because every time I see mallard ducks, they're always spending time in groups.
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