Almost Compost

[LV426]

So my ducks had laid some eggs in the yard and I hadn't found them right away so by the time I did find them I figured they were too old to eat and I hadn't seen anyone sitting on them so I tossed them onto the compost heap figuring a coon or crow would eat them. So last night I went to clean the duck pen and I was tossing used bedding onto the compost and I hear this peeping noise coming from the compost pile. So I go poking through it and I find this egg with a beak sticking out of it and peeping loudly. So I took the little guy in the egg in the house and fired up the incubator and popped him in. Later that evening he hatched out, this tiny little duckling all wrinkled up and wobbly. He wasn't holding his head up much and I thought for sure he wouldn't make it through the night but I'll be darned if he didn't pull through and his feet which were kind of twisted all straightened out and he's running around like a little speed demon.



So guess I have a baby duck to be mama too.