Sad Duck Story

Last Thursday Shane and I took the girls to St. George to visit my mom and dad over spring break. We figured the duck eggs would hatch so we were anxious to get back and see them. Well, after our 5 day vacation, when we returned on Monday we found 4 of the 11 duck had hatched, but we weren't quite prepared for what we saw. The four baby ducks were "floating" in the pool, and by floating I don't mean swimming. I think you get the idea. It was so sad. We think that they weren't able to get out of the pool and got too cold and died. We discovered there were a couple of eggs still in the nest, and we don't know what happened to the other eggs, so we were hoping that "Jill" would come back and sit on the other eggs. Well, as Shane researched it, he learned that if all the eggs don't hatch together usually the mother will abandon the rest of her eggs. She was flying around the house for a few hours after Shane pulled her babies out of the pool, but we haven't seen her ever since. I just feel so bad for her :( RIP baby ducks!