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Riyadh found a mysterious egg and decided to hatch it — and the first swim is everything ❤️ We spoke with Riyadh who shared the three ways he helps Spike learn how to be a duck.
Riyadh found a mysterious egg and decided to hatch it — and the first swim is everything ❤️ We spoke with Riyadh who shared the three ways he helps Spike learn how to be a duck.
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00:00We just found what we think is a duck egg just sitting here on its own.
00:06Should I take it home and try to hatch it?
00:09I think I might buy an incubator and just give it a go.
00:16The egg is in its life support vessel and now we wait.
00:20Day five.
00:21I'm going to have a look and see.
00:26Oh my God.
00:27Oh my God.
00:28Oh, it's like so alive.
00:34It's moving.
00:35It's moving.
00:36My broveries were twitching.
00:37Oh my God.
00:38There's an eye.
00:39There's an eye.
00:40Do you see the dark dot?
00:42It was torture stopping myself from helping it break out of the egg.
00:45Doing that could be fatal.
00:46I eventually passed out.
00:48Then 29 hours after the pipping began, this happened.
00:54Oh wow.
00:55Hello baby.
00:56Nice to meet you.
00:57Oh my God.
00:58I think I'm going to call him Spike.
00:59Spike.
01:00Oh, he's responding to it.
01:08My gorgeous one day old rescue duckling is finally ready to leave the incubator.
01:11So I'm going to make the most epic duck digs that ever were.
01:16I'm calling it ducking him palace.
01:18My son will not only survive, but he shall thrive.
01:21Number one, mirrors.
01:23Just like the online reports, he started to interact with his sibling.
01:27Two, the surrogate teddy duck.
01:30He looks, learns, and then tries it for himself.
01:35My child is a genius.
01:37And three, having some quack.
01:40Mixing in the duck whistle and also ducky sounds on my laptop.
01:44He just felt right at home.
01:47And with his first full belly, it was a hop and a skip to his royal four poster bed and
01:51nap time commenced.
01:53My heart is full and my brain continues to absorb an insane amount of duck information.
01:57There's only so much I can do for him.
02:01He's foraging with me, he's swimming with me, but he's not socializing with his own
02:05kind.
02:06When he's about eight, nine weeks, he's going to go to the most amazing rehabilitation place
02:12to integrate into a flock, learn how to properly be a duck.
02:18It'll be heartbreaking that we humans are just here to kind of help him along, but ultimately
02:25he's the master of his own destiny.