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Help! Mallard on nest, but no eggs hatching...

dolfingrl
10 years ago

We have a mallard duck that lays her eggs in our flower bed for the last 4 springs. There's never been any issues with her clutch. This year she laid 14 eggs. My question is this...one egg hatched 18 days ago. Mama duck seems to have lost that duckling that following day as it's not around. Anyways, it's been 18 days since that egg hatched and no others have hatched, but she's still sitting on the nest. Should I be removing the left-over 13 eggs as they're clearly not going to hatch or should I leave them??

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