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The chances of a raccoon spreading a disease to your eggs or ducklings via surface contact are minimal, hope they hatch!

Yeah!!!! So happy to hear this!!!!

Yay!

So cute! What kind are they?

They did, well four of them that I can see did today!

Thank you for encouraging me to keep the eggs! We had 4, that I can see, hatch today!

So I had a pet raccoon that was orphaned when I was a kid, and was very

So on the dot, even with the raccoon getting in the house and killing my buff duck and beating my drake up pretty bad, on day 28, I went...

Oh I believe that, and we have a state park on one side and a national park half a mile down on the other side. We caught a juvenile...

Good to hear. Hopefully they were not relocated just far from your house. I have read where you have to take them more than 10 miles...

Thank you! Yes I have secured the house and pen, which they can go back and forth so I wanted to make sure this will never happen...

I totally agree. Keep letting the Broody hatch out the babies but make sure everything is secure because where there is one raccoon...

Thank you! After I cleaned up the mess, I did cut fence the rest of the day and made sure it was triple secure, I didn't bring my drake...

My goodness what a sad story. Were you able to secure your duck house so that the raccoon cannot get back inside, Your drake seems to...

I agree with the campbell part. Those pekin males can do a number on the smaller females. I had one that constantly bred the smaller...