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tracyjg said:
There's no ducks yet.we our suppost to go look at two juvenile birds in area on Sunday. They our laying eggs to original owner. I asking on baby's because we want to put them in the incubator for hatch on my son school hatching we do. I have had chickens die because they for some reason stop eating or wouldn't eat. Trying to syringe water before vet opened. They passed away before we could get to vet.they our wild birds born in a family's yard.there 1 and 2 years old.i want to have things ready here for them.if I take them in.i would like to keep them in a natural nature there used to.but when I incubate I want to have ready what they need.i don't know there conditions. If any. That might be over looked.
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Without a mama there to show them, you have to "teach" them how to eat and drink by dipping their bills in the water and chick crumble. Looks like you have a lot to learn before getting your ducks, but luckily you're in the right place! There are lots of good stickies and educational threads that will tell you all you need to know. Are these going to be house ducks? You say you want them to be "natural" but if you hatch them yourself and plan on keeping them in the house, there isn't much that's natural about that.

Ducks are so, so rewarding, but they are a LOT of work!
 
I know I have chickens. I would only put them in house if they had been hurt or sick or need to be inside at last resort. To save them from elements or injurys if they hurt each other. I know you have to stick chickens beaks in water and food often for a week to get them going. But like I told someone else if they have a genetic issue after incubaton and there not able to get anything . Dehydration sets in. If there anything like a chicken there social structure is so tight with othe birds /ducks/ chickens /kits examples one dies other start to die.if emblicol cords don't detach right bleeding issues can happen and birds /ducks can die. Like in a chicken example I have had a number of them have emblicol cords attached to small intestants and die. I have also in a chicken example been born paralyzed and die. I had one die last night in incubator on one of my chickens. So times they stop eatting and die.i know you have to check there butts for pasty butt . I thinking its similar. Like my chickens I have both in and out of house because of nasty winter weather frost bite. We our in process of changing things around to cover what we didn't get or what fell apart in storms. I know my birds get spooked in storms. I sure it's the same with ducks. The ones with umbilical issues die on there own or vet puts them to sleep for me to put them out of pain because it's genetic in male genes in chicken we have. All my males have it.we spent a year trying to pin it down.or the syringe and it could be dangerous because you can over due it and get to much. The little one will be in house they need heat lights.and warmth. I not sure if the ducks we our getting have given birth on there own or if they where just laying eggs owner we our getting from .i know the parents of these gave birth natural.these or wild birds born in a residential backyard.and stayed.the ones we our taking in our 1 and 2 years old. It would be there children .
 
Like example winter storm last week knocked a net down. We pen all birds to closer confinement in bad storms. It's being reattached these weekend. If something went wrong we would bring them in house. We wouldn't take a chance on it. And them being so new to our house hold. There will be ups and downs until they settle in. We will keep in touch on both site here.
 
Like on our chickens we have done heat lights and tarps and wood and card board in closer confinement where there safe. And then we let them roam to the other end of coops. It's all protected until the netting comes of the block wall . Then it's repaired and they all go free again. We still have cold issues where they bleed and have to be in home.
 
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My best friend Luda!
 
GAH, so nervous! I have the one remaining duck egg going into lockdown and the other three still have two weeks to go until they hatch! x_x;;
 

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