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My Khaki Campbell, Alfalfa, is 1.5 years old and has started molting her wing feathers for the first time. She gives a little flap and 4 feathers will fall off, which is supposedly normal (I'm a first time duck owner, had her since she was an egg). However, I noticed the beginning of her wings...

Thank you for the help! I'll buy a few fake eggs. And yes a spoiled egg would be very bad :)

Oh wow I never knew that! I have been washing them and refrigerating. Thank you for the tip!

Thank you very much! I have her on the Purina duck feed along with corn and peas for treats. I'll look into calcium supplements :)

Hello! You can skip to the end of this paragraph for my two questions. Here is the background information. So I have a Khaki Campbell duck who I call Alfalfa. She laid her first egg at 4 months old. Is this normal? Every article I read says khakis start laying at 5-7 months old. She has been...

My duck is a Khaki Campbell and she's 3 months old soon. What supplies should I "give" her so she can make her own nest? She already fancies a box I had laying around and I imagine I'd have to put grass and other stuff in that box.

Hello! I was wondering if anyone could give insight if my duckling Alfalfa is a girl or boy. Here's pictures of plumage. I know male and female khaki campbell have different looks but is six weeks old too early to tell?

My baby Khaki Campbell ducklings! I hatched them myself, and the duckling in the 2nd and 3rd photo is called "Alfalfa" from the movie The Little Rascals. They're my little babies. :love

I'm sure it already kicked it off by now but yeah sometimes they stay attached. Give it a few hours and it should dry off and come off their body. Also congrats on your ducklings! They are sooo adorable! The ducklings look so different once fluffed up.

Awe the poor baby. I'm glad you got to the other duckling in time! Are you sure there's no hope for the dead one? Even if it appears to not be breathing it might still have a chance if you take off the membrane.

Internal pipping is just when it pokes through the membrane, like you said it was shrink wrapped. Keep wetting the membrane with coconut oil until enough veins have receded to tear off a piece of membrane. If it starts bleeding, just apply pressure with a q-tip until it stops. My duckling bled...

Also if you have q-tips, tiny paint brushes, or a small makeup brush, it works really well with reappling moisture to the membrane. With my one egg that needed assistance, I'd say it took 6 hours of me wetting the membrane with a q-tip and I did that every 30 minutes. Call ducks are smaller so...

Ah okay. Keep doing what you're doing then! The one egg that didn't get a safety hole, did you put one in yet?

The babies are less likely to externally pip if there's a safety hole. I'd wait a bit before putting anymore safety holes, at least 12 hours. The one that shows no movement go ahead and open up further. See if it's shrink wrapped.

I know! I didn't get any sleep at all during hatch day. I didn't sleep for nearly two days to the point that I passed out with the one weaker duckling Alfalfa still sleeping by my tummy. My duckling Alfalfa is one week and 4 days old now and refuses to go to sleep unless he/she is by my side...

Oh and since my 4th duckling hatched nearly 8 hours from the other 3, I of course opened it and moved the 3 ducklings to the brooder and kept the 4th in the incubator until it had been "hatched" 10 hours like its siblings.

I took mine out of the incubator 10 hours after they hatched and into the brooder. I opened the incubator several times in those 10 hours as once they started hatching, the humidity was sky rocketing and I wanted to make sure they got enough air. My incubator is small, so even tho one egg still...

Oh and no scab. That's his back toe.

Thanks for letting me know! I found the purina duck feed on amazon so I'll have a bag shipped to my new home.

Will do. Right now I'm having him/her eat peas with their food as it's high in niacin. What brands/products do you recommend?