About a week ago we found a duck nesting in our front garden. The next day it got killed by a predator.
My son built an incubator to hatch the remaining 7 eggs.
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You can tell that they’re viable by ‘candling’; shining a light through the egg. Here you can see the embryo beating:
Ducks candling
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You drew faces on the eggs 
They’re mallards. A common type of wild duck around here.
Nice ducks!
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That was my sons gf. You have to turn the eggs twice a day, so that’s an easy way to keep track.
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Have you named them yet?
I figure it’s like parents of multiple birth offspring - putting different colored pony tails in their hair to be able to tell them apart.
I suggest
Duck #1
Duck #2
Duck #3
Duck #4
Duck #5
Duck #6
Steve
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Which one is you?
Don’t assess your ducks until they hatch.
omg they’re going to follow you around. so cute.
just be sure to keep them in a row
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Business venture idea: For a small fee, one can sponsor one of your ducks and in return we get to name said duck.
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I want a new duck!
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Makeham
Bayes
Euler
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Confit
Pate
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