THE SUSPENCE IS KILLING ME!

[Sue S]

Congratulations!!! & Sorry for your loss of the 1 duckling

 

[Dees ducks]

Pics as promised.....

 

[Miss Lydia]

How adorable Congratulations!!

 

[Tannerpauldean]

Love this! So happy you have these little fluffballs. Following for more pics!

 

[cmom]

What a rollercoaster, traumatic week.........
5 out of the 6 eggs hatched with sadly the one that hatched from the wrong end ( named Uppsydaisy) dying after about 30 minutes of being born. So I like cried for 2 hours saying no way was I ever going to go through this again! Yesterday I was a bag of nerves and having anxiety attacks worrying about the other 4 as 3 of the all seemed very floppy and lifeless (not like the first Oddball as mentioned was charging around the incubator from the moment he hatched). Well I woke at 5am this morning to find 4 very healthy, fluffy, active and cheeky ducklings eating and drinking in-between naps.
Then I had two further surprises this morning........
The last egg piped and hatched and although seems very very weak is sleeping and drying out in the incubator. Please God it will be fine but am watching very carefully today.
The other surprise was that my 6 month old duck called Matilda laid her first egg!!!!!
Yeay
Pics of ducklings will follow but at the moment they are just piled in the corner of the brooder like a fluffy, cheaping pile

Congratulations on your hatch. I have never hatched out ducks but over the years have hatched out hundreds of chicks. I have had chicks pip the wrong end of the shell and hatch out ok. Good luck and have fun with you new youngsters...

 

[happy duck]

Congrats!!! They look so cute and fluffy!!! Good job on getting your incubator to work and tell your other duck congrats on her first egg!

 

[Trux]

Congrats on your hatch

 

[jp0318]

Your ducks are adorable!

 

[Dees ducks]

Well it's 5am in the morning here in the UK and last night I gave the last hatched egg about a 30% chance of surviving the night. All day yesterday it looked so so weak with his little neck not able to support his head and flopping all over the place. It couldn't stand and just looked awful! I tried to get it to take a little water which it did but only a tiny amount. I went to bed and left my housemate on duckling sick bed watch and took over at 3am this morning so that he could go to bed. Well I can't believe it......the little duckling is more alert, eyes open, standing (occasionally) and chirping to his brothers and sisters through the partition in the brooder! He's drunk a little more water and is curled up on his heated pad cuddling "Shaun the sheep" a small cuddly toy I put in for him last night. I am so relieved and if he carries on well today will let him join his brothers and sisters. I'll let him rest for now but photos of him cuddling Shaun the sheep will follow.
Also, I made a promise to him last night that if he pulled through the he was one that I would definitely keep!

 

[Sue S]

Sounds like he's getting stronger, he's definitely a keeper!!!