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Fantastic photos now I like number one its like "I have been spotted sitting here quietly minding my own business..."

 

They are so sweet..ohhh.

 

How many more are you expecting :?:

 

Good luck indie :)

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We had three when we went to bed - and we have four this morning :D:dance:

 

Three dark and one yellow - we were quite surprised as we didn't think the Black Runner was laying, we didn't think she ever started laying!! Now we know that it must be Mindy, our oldest duck, who has stopped laying.

 

I've never hatched ducks using the incubator before, they hatch quite differently to hen eggs. Hen eggs seem to take ages......a little hole when they start pipping......a long wait while they enlarge the hole etc. - duck eggs don't seem to be doing anything although you can feel the egg move, go back half an hour later and there is a duckling :shock: I suppose the more porous shell must help.

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No - they run away from my hand :D

 

We have 6 now - three of each colour. The other threee don't appear to be doing anything but I'll leave them a few days yet.

 

Lauren and Jake have been here and holding the ducklings - they kept running up and over their shoulders so I had to catch them :D

 

We had a bit of a panic on Thursday evening. You know when you know where something is and so you don't need to go and find it early?..........well, we knew where the heat lamp was so we'd got everything set up except the lamp...........but it wasn't where we thought it was :shock:

 

We couldn't find it yesterday either - and believe me, we have plenty of places to look :? We set them up with a desk lamp for heat and fortunately it has been warm so it wasn't too much of a problem. We've found the lamp and the dull emitter bulb now so they're fine.

 

We will move them to the big brooder soon - just waiting to see if any more hatch.

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ooh rrrr they are just so little, very cute, good luck they look so alert compared to the dinosaurs that came out of the egg..very nice they should do really well..right little robust ducklings...good luck with them all :D indie

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The 6 young ducks went to Duckingham Palace No2 - a sectioned off part of the duck run.....

 

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The dustbin was their 'Duck Carrier'

 

 

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They wouldn't go into their little pond for ages but love it now......we just have a problem getting them to go into the coop.

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oooh they have grown , what a lovely set up and hope they learn to go to bed too, really nice to see them so big now, very nice looking ducks, they are lovely

 

Great pics indie :)

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