So for those of you who do not know, we’ve been incubating Isaac has been incubating duck eggs for the past 20 or so days. He’s been faithful with turning his eggs two to three times a day. Yesterday morning he turned the eggs before he left for church and there was nothing. He didn’t notice any attempts at hatching, no cracks in the eggs, nothing.
Later in the day he’s upstairs (where the incubator is) playing with Eli and he hears a squeaking. He assumes it’s his guinea pig, Ginger, but upon listening some more realizes this squeaking is a bit higher pitched than Ginger. He runs over to the incubator and discovers a duckling!!!
The duckling, from our calculations, is about five days early. It’s the only one to hatch and now we have to remove him/her from the incubator and she/he is going to be all alone in her/his new home. I hope another one hatches soon! It happened so quickly that the boys are constantly running up there to check and see if any more have hatched.
Today we will be moving the duckling to its new home at Grandma’s, as we have nothing to keep the ducklings in. :(
The boys are going to love these ducks!
Logan holding the first duckling, as Isaac (the mother duck) looks on nervously.
I’m sure I’ll be posting more duckling pics in the next few days.
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