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generally the other ducks have no access to them during nights and when they’re outside the coop the mom and babies go off on their own, so that’s why i think if it was a coop mate that it was a chicken.

they all reside in the same coop but the mom and the babies have been sleeping in her nest which is inside a big cage. i found the baby outside the nest, the only thing i think i could see injury wise was the eye looks like it may have been poked out but it was hard to tell. i usually let them...

some sad news today i was feeding the mom and her babies by the lake and i counted only 6 babies , when there was 7 before. i found the baby dead in the coop :( i’m unsure what happened.

there’s 7 babies, happy we had some successfully hatch finally 🙏 the one with the most black is my fave. they’ve been hatched a bit now just forgot to update. super excited to see how they turn out tho because at least some of them,if not all of them the dad is (presumably) a cayuga

she got off the nest this morning to get some water and i checked with a flash light and all 5 eggs seem to be fertile and hopefully close to hatching soon (forgot to mention we found out she had two more) most of them the air pocket in it was at a slant.

i just checked and there’s no babies yet, i found one that died previously that was burried in the hay but all the eggs are still under the mom. i have no clue if the eggs she’s on now are even fertile :(

our females are all rouens. we had two broody moms in a cage we had left in the coop they decided to make nests in it, 3 babies hatched and were dead upon finding them, we came to the conclusion it’s likely the other mother who killed the babies so we took the one who lost her babies out and...

okay i checked the coop again and there was a dead baby outside the nest!! i tried to heat it up and see if there was any life but it seemed it was dead far too long… what’s going on?? our ducks our as far as we know at least, new moms….

i thought this too. ☹️

i’m so distraught! today i checked the coop and found two seemingly normal eggs on the ground, one was broken with green inside so i assume rotten.. then i spotted one that had a red hue and another with what looks like a pecked hole and blood and black feathers! they’re nowhere near any nest...

that’s good to know . hopefully it works out then cause we are wanted ducklings !

i kinda hope they both raise them that would be cool to see!

this morning i let out the birds and noticed a duck on a nest and after coming home from work i noticed another duck laying on the nest. are they both broody? i’d it possible they are going to raise the babies together? i haven’t had a broody duck before but we’ve had chicks hatch for many years...

she’s walking today. gonna start giving the other birds antibiotics since it seems to be working.

Her crop is emptying? it has been emptying and she’s been given an antibiotic daily.