When the egg hatches, he instantly realizes he was always meant to be a dad. Wait till he teaches his baby how to quack!
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00:00I think I might buy an incubator and just give it a go.
00:03There was no nest, there was no other eggs,
00:06and I thought, okay, there's no way that this thing is going to survive.
00:10It's just an egg, but I'm attached.
00:12It can live in a dormant state without being warm for three weeks,
00:17so it's okay until the incubator arrives.
00:20And it was straight to business and hope that something might happen.
00:25Day five, I'm going to have a look and see.
00:30Oh, my God.
00:33Oh, my God.
00:35Oh, it's like so alive.
00:38It's moving, it's moving.
00:40It was just clear as day.
00:42There's an eye, there's an eye.
00:44Do you see the dark dot?
00:45I'm not religious, but let me tell you, it's a miracle.
00:50I could see this very clear outline of the most gorgeous little round bill.
00:55I now know it's a duck because I saw the bill.
00:58Oh, it's really gone for you. Strong. Strong, baby. Well done.
01:01The difficult thing is you have to let them do it on their own.
01:04Just to monitor and watch and be patient is really hard for me.
01:09I eventually passed out.
01:11At 4.51 a.m., I heard the tweets.
01:17Oh, wow.
01:21Hello, baby. Nice to meet you. Oh, my God.
01:24There was just this little wet alien staring back at me.
01:28I think I'm going to call him Spike. Spike.
01:30Oh, he's responding to it.
01:32It was love of her sight.
01:33My gorgeous one-day-old rescue duckling is finally ready to leave the incubator,
01:38so I'm going to make the most epic duck digs that ever were.
01:41I'm calling it Duckingham Palace.
01:43My son will not only survive, but he shall thrive.
01:47Number one, mirrors.
01:49Just like the online reports, he started to interact with his sibling.
01:54Two, the surrogate teddy duck.
01:56He looks, learns, and then tries it for himself.
01:59Yes.
02:00My child is a genius.
02:02And three, having some quack.
02:06Mixing in the duck whistle and also ducky sounds on my laptop.
02:10He just felt right at home.
02:11It's just such a fulfilling process to watch a small being learn.
02:21We go for daily park walks to experience the great outdoors.
02:27He's swimming with me.
02:29He's foraging with me.
02:34There's only so much I can do for him.
02:41They grow so fast, it's almost frightening.
02:46I think you're ready to go.
02:49Oh, God, my heart is actually aching.
02:52He's going to go to the most amazing rehabilitation place to integrate into a flock, learn how to properly be a duck.
03:06To know that he's that emerald green head, I was just like so excited.
03:15He will learn to fly and decide himself on whether he stays in this beautiful open-air place, or he'll fly away and be truly, fully wild.
03:26We humans are just here to kind of help him along, but ultimately, he's the master of his own destiny.
03:35It'll take me a while to recover from the absence of his energy.
03:39It feels silly because it's a duck, but he's the greatest gift.
03:46You know, this little thing changed my life.
03:49Oh, God.