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csziggy

(34,136 posts) Fri Jul 20, 2018, 04:17 PM Jul 2018

The Rarest Ducklings on earth

ETA - this the the same guy that posted "The Smallest Bird you have ever seen" video about hatching a tiny egg and raising the chick that came out! His YouTube channel is A Chick Called Albert: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBjh-uGy5RcclATnFpQBobw

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The Rarest Ducklings on earth (Original Post) csziggy Jul 2018 OP

Well, wasn't that sweet. magicarpet Jul 2018 #1

I was so happy when he could save that third duckling! csziggy Jul 2018 #2

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magicarpet

(14,144 posts)

1. Well, wasn't that sweet.

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Fri Jul 20, 2018, 05:02 PM

Jul 2018

THX for sharing.

csziggy

(34,136 posts)

2. I was so happy when he could save that third duckling!

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Fri Jul 20, 2018, 05:19 PM

Jul 2018

We've had "dummy" foals that could not stand or suckle. It's heartbreaking to wait for a new life, have a living youngster, and then realize it just cannot survive no matter what you or the veterinarian do.

One of ours, the vet took to her house, spent the night milking the mare and putting a tube into the foal's stomach to feed it. It made no difference - at four AM when the vet went out, the mare who had been staying by her foal had walked off and would not come to be milked. The foal passed away in less than an hour after that.

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