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That would make the most sense but I can't find anything on them with Google in a continental Europe context.

Does anybody have an idea what Ancona ducks are called in Europe? (German? French?) @WannaBeHillBilly ? ... I don't seem to find anything :(

Just WildChild would do fine :)

In our round 2 in the incubator, it is now day 18 and when candling we saw that one more egg fell back along the way and stopped developing. Contents just floating around, no veins visible anymore. The remaining 9 look really good though. Following our own and a friend's hatching experience we...

Yes, KC are... volatile. Some people say runners are the most nervous breed. I don't know but KC's are plenty nervous :) Our 2 little ones are now tall enough that they can hop out of the cardboard box used to move them between their indoor and outdoor large pen. Had to chase them in the grass...

Oh my what cuteness :) Is it OK for such little ducklings (while they don't yet have feathers) to bathe and dive, getting really wet? I had this idea from somewhere that I should wait... Have I been holding them back for no reason? Should the water be warm?

Aaaand even before all you North Americans woke up, she's off again and joining the others in slug-country part of the property. She was just curious what this "broody" thing is I guess... Maybe she'll get curious again tomorrow with a larger clutch of eggs (6 currently).

I think the way to go would be to just put in some movable wire fencing a foot or two tall overnight - when the other ducks come into the house and the broody one does not need to go outside.

So, hmmm... In the very first week of us having ducks, a little over a year ago, 6 ducks went into their house in the evening and 5 came out in the morning. No blood, no feathers, no traumatized other ducks, no nothing. I still don't understand what happened that night. But in time and with...

Of our next incubator batch, two eggs started to develop but failed early. The other ten seem to be well. Air sacks maybe a bit small again? Dropped humidity to 45. It is day 14. Also, more hedgehogs.

Dude, we had two beautiful healthy ducklings and nine dead ones.. Was it me, was it the incubator, at this point I'll believe anything, I just want to do better.

Thank you everybody for info about the cooling time. Our two little ducklings are now 2 weeks old and we can see the start of what will be feathers appearing. They don't seem to particularly care for the heat plate anymore. Over the day it's mostly around 20 C (68 F) outside, more in the...

Maybe it was made up for this book l read but presumably there is a saying : coincidence is the messenger of truth. So I guess you should take the universe's hint :)

I got distracted and left the incubator open for 25 instead of 10 minutes for the daily cooling... Not good but how bad?

Dry (inactivated) brewers' yeast sprinkled over his food, finely mashed peas mixed in ... that's what we did with our poor under-developed little duck in the spring following @Miss Lydia and others' advice in the Quack Shack. Thanks again everybody. For humans you can't overdose the B vitamin...

These guys https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/animals/beetles/rose-chafer/ produce nice fat grubs...

Before and after - yesterday and today. Magic duckling booster = mashed peas, cracked corn, dry yeast, grit, water. They get dry chick starter crumble separately but they loooove the booster mix.

Like chupacabra, but for ducks... Chupapatos! But it's wrong to joke about this :(

It is day 12 and they just grew enough so they can pop their heads above the plate and discover a new world. If they were to stand on the top I think it would be no big problem for them to hop out so we're always putting a lid - mesh screen on top of the crate.

Oh man. So a 2-legged predator?