It all began one morning in April. Our pet duck had been setting on a nest
of fourteen eggs so long we thought they'd never hatch, but one day they
did.
After several days no more ducklings appeared and we decided to dispose
of the remaining seven eggs. Several were rotten and the egg we were preparing
to break had a slight crack already, so that's why it hadn't hatched.......
we thought! But....... upon making a small hole we discovered a duckling
inside, too weak to emerge. The hen had left her nest, so we put him under
a heat lamp. After several days he'd still not emerged, and we knew we'd
have to help.
We'd heard that ducklings ingest the remaining yolk shortly before hatching,
and we hoped he'd completed this process. Thankfully, after softening the
membrane (which had dried out) with water and painstakingly removing three
layers off shell and membrane with our tweezers we found he had.
After being helped from his prison our little pet just lay around and peeped
for a couple days. We really weren't sure if he'd make it. But after several
days, Pampers as we'd named him, was following his adopted parents everywhere
they went. After a week we returned him to his natural mother who gladly
accepted him, and to this date he is the healthiest and friendliest of
his family.
Yahweh giveth and Yahweh taketh away. We're just thankful he gave
us this little bundle of fluff to observe firsthand!
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