Duckling Assisted Hatching guide
Learn when and how to safely assist a duckling to hatch — including how to create a safety hole, check for blood in the membrane, and avoid common mistakes.
The Applebrook Blog
Duck Eggs Not Hatching? Relative Humidity Could Be The Problem
Spring arrives with its promise of new life. The daffodils are in flower and lambs are frolicking in the fields. Ducks have started to lay and you fill your incubator...
The Importance of Family (or why we will never sell a lone duck)
Ducks are highly sociable and from ducklinghood form family groupings and partnerships that stay with them for life...
The Story of Cyril (or how to tell whether your duck is a girl)
I have a little white female duck I named Cyril, as I believed she was a boy. Cyril is now five years old and I’d forgotten why I’d thought she was a boy...