This video was taken with a digital camera around August 18, 2009. These ducks and ducklings live in a sewer and the 70% of the ducklings don’t make it to the fledging stage. These orphans from 3 different clutches were borned between late June and first week of July. River otters had killed their moms when the ducklings were 2 to 4 weeks ancient. The seven (of twelve) orphan ducklings – about 6 weeks ancient — waiting for me to give them Mazuri duck food with key vitamins and minerals. Around 14 seconds into the video my favorite duckling stands in the water to get my attention s/he does this often. Public don’t know how quick ducklings grow — very nearly doubling their weight each week for 8 weeks. These ducklings have to eat to develop their feathers and their wings. Lastly, these are wild ducks so please don’t feed bread or other human food which can harm or kill these ducklings / ducks.

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