Dozens of duck eggs hatch before cooking, leaving Southern CA sanctuary with influx of ducklings

A duck sanctuary in Southern California is in desperate need of help to care for a sudden influx of ducklings who hatched before they were set to be cooked. abc7ne.ws/3WiRPB3
#ducks #balut #ducklings #duckeggs #inlandempire #southerncalifornia #california #asian #food #asianstreetfood #sanctuary #abc7news

[@lorrainefoster1320]

I had ducks in my classroom for 1 day, just to babysit. When I tell you that my students with challenging behaviors and trauma sat with the ducks, fed them, nurtured them, and protected them, I was floored! I had never seen my babies like that! Get those ducks into nearby schools! They are a great strategies for kids coping with trauma. In addition, they are great for environmental and health lessons.

[@PHlophe]

Since then all the kids call you Auntie Lolo from Ducks.

[@mobstercrow7515]

I was in an advanced learning class in elementary school. One day, a lady came in and taught us about silkie chickens. I was about 9 at the time and I fell in love with silkies. The lady had an adorable white silkie hen. I'm 18 now and I have 11 chickens in my back yard. I have a white silkie hen named Genos and her husband is a black silkie rooster names Merlin. They had 6 babies together but one sadly died. I also have a game hen, two buff orpingtons, and a buff orpington x silkie cross. I had an orp named Fat Chicken (she was fat) and she bred with Merlin, sadly she died before her baby hatched. Her baby is named Honey and he/she is still alive. My orps and the cross are still babies and they are adorable! They love watermelon! I live in the city and we are not allowed to have roosters but we have an agreement with our neighbors. If we give them freshly grown tomatoes and eggs, they won't turn us in! Silkie chickens are absolutely amazing.

[@cherie4868]

Very cool and God Bless You for being a Teacher 🍎 🍏 🦆 😁

[@stitches318]

My son's school does things like that. It's a private school. I notice other schools don't really do it. They say because public schools have more regulations about bringing animals inside the classroom

[@javiruiz8365]

I love this story!!

[@mrxxbrian]

"Sorry I have 60 ducks I need to get rid of..." "60 ducks you say?" "Yes. 600 ducks."

[@Dimaz42]

"600??" "Correct, it's 800"

[@Dane-o7q]

Quack! ducks are good. i even feed them at the park, Quack!

[@yolyprog2561]

😂

[@Abdega]

@@Dimaz42 “800 ducks?!” “That’s right, 90 ducks”

[@BullShitThat]

“90 ducks you say?” “That’s fantastic, we can just put them... AAAAAAnnd there gone!!"

[@gotchou]

All those eggs sitting above 90 degrees for a month straight is wild

[@darkcloud5830]

Not too hard to do.

[@UsDiYoNa]

Its the method used in cooking this “food”. They keep the eggs at incubation temps up to a day or two before the eggs hatch, then they cook the duckling/chicks inside their eggs. Mega f’d up.

[@alwaysyouramanda]

Lucky ducks.

[@TheCeruleanSea]

It's actually more interesting than that. The Chinese used to have a method of incubating eggs, hundreds of years ago. I imagine they only stopped using it relatively recently. Initially they would pack the eggs in warmed rice hulls. After a certain point though, the developing embryos start generating their own heat. At this point they bundled the eggs together in large quantities and insulate them with blankets, turning them as needed. The eggs basically incubated themselves. Sounds like that's basically what happened here. Unfortunately the decline in health is probably due to lack of turning and proper humidity and so forth during the accidental incubation.

[@brrrrraaaaaapppp]

Only beta cucks says "wild"

[@amonraphoenix]

Thats some drastic decline in health, going from 600 to 90 ducklings.

[@rainbowhaven]

Normal in nature, not all of them were meant to survive

[@Whatnok]

That proves their process is inhumaine and disgusting and it must be stopped. ‼️🤢😡

[@hobknob1437]

​@@rainbowhaven Why are people who know nothing, always trying to seem knowledgeable on the internets? It is not normal, losing more than 5 out of 6 ducks baby ducks in a clutch. Please stop pretending to be smart, someone might actually listen to you.

[@chaseelwind1578]

@@hobknob1437 im guessing you believe in transgenderism?

[@eli84360]

​@@hobknob1437 yeah thats 15% survival ratio. Pretty sad

[@Jose-ze1sn]

R.I.P. 😢🌹to the departed ducklings. Hopefully the rest survive and live happy and healthy lives 🙏

[@johnsonbui]

No ít s became china duck my dear 😂😂😂😂

[@kenet71]

​@@johnsonbui. Peking duck 🦆? 😂

[@BlackSeranna]

They should do fine. All they need from here on out is warmth and food. They will be better off if they are adopted in small groups. I used to raise ducks as a hobby on a farm, ducks and geese. I was a real live “goose girl”. Every day my job was to take the baby geese and ducks out during the hours of daylight, and take them walking around the yard and garden so they could find bugs and food. I spent many hours on a blanket reading while they roamed around getting food. I always had to keep an eye out for predators, too, as babies are always a quick menu item for animals that live in the weeds.

[@purple6705]

fanum

[@tracy3418]

@@Shawn-94yeah, everyone seems to be skimming past that part...

[@Littlebit1031]

I’m so grateful for the sanctuary for taking these little ones and nursing them. ❤

[@Trund27]

Me too. 😢

[@jessicaregina1956]

Shhhh dont say anything about how Chinese eat duck by the ton.

[@guy8646]

I imagine that the fact that the eggs were stacked on top of each other means that many ducklings were squished when they hatched.

[@Celebritylivesandgossip]

Because they were used to be eating

[@guy8646]

@@Celebritylivesandgossip Yes, I know that. I commented because a lot of people expressed shock that so many ducklings died, but since they were all stacked on top of each other many were likely smothered and injured.

[@fxrivrgirl]

Farm fertilized chicken eggs don't hatch that easily I've never had it happen. They have t o be rotated several times a day & chickens need 99° constant temp. If you don't rotate stored at room temp eggs I've not had any hatch in the 3 years I've had chicken. She may have gotten eggs mistakenly for hatching for that many to hatch... You have to rotate eggs if you think you might want to incubate at a later date Then the 99° &;freq turn schedule. Non stop for the incubation period has to be constant.. What happened was very abnormal..

[@guy8646]

@@fxrivrgirl Watch the video. These are fertilized duck eggs that are sold to be eaten as balut, which is when you eat the developing duck baby. But they didn’t refrigerate them in time and they ended up hatching.

[@sarahstanton6483]

If the eggs weren’t squished, the ducks wouldn’t have been squished either. The pallets are locked in place and no baby duck would have the strength to lift it out of place. Their health was what would have got most of them. Sadly even in best conditions, some birds just don’t make it and these baby ducks could have been unnoticed for hours.

[@DistractedDaisy]

Ducks are great natural pesticides for gardens.

[@thylacine1154]

Yes I had 2 pet ducks and they completely wiped out the snails in my zuchinni garden. They were happy plus they added natural fertilizer.

[@brendalg4]

They are not pesticides. They eat the bugs

[@DefinitelyNotAFerret]

@@brendalg4just semantics

[@RoccosVideos]

This story is a rollercoaster ride of emotions. They’re adorable. 🐣

[@ragingjaguarknight86]

Aduckable! ❤️ 🐤 🐣

[@RoccosVideos]

@@ragingjaguarknight86 Good one. Haha. : )

[@mspears_bobobuddytheseniorcat]

600-800 and only 90 ducklings remaining! 🐥🙏💔

[@debbiebernhardt5406]

Extreme heat made them hatch. They were not cooled. Given that these eggs were fertile, it should have been possible that they had grown fast.

[@rainbowhaven]

Thats usually how it goes in nature

[@erykahhoney588]

Omg 😢

[@TheBigExclusive]

For anyone confused why so many baby ducks died, it was because they were left in the warehouse for several days without food or water after hatching. The Duck sanctuary was only contacted afterwards. By the time the baby ducks arrived to the sanctuary, they were were in extremely poor health. Thats why only 90 of the 600 baby sucks survived.

[@nkotbsouth]

@@erykahhoney588 😢

[@Nevernowaynope]

One day... Can I just go one day without a heartbreaking animal story? 💔💔💔 Thanks to the wonderful folks who stepped up ❤️

[@cmthomas07]

I hate little kid stories.🥺

[@ryanzanow8221]

Yes you can! Stop sitting on your phone and paying attention to the media, and get out into nature. You’re doing this to yourself, and no one feels sorry for you.

[@pinkroses135]

Doesn't seem like it

[@MaritzaRodriguez-tt6fh]

Didn't even know there was a DUCK SANCTUARY 😅 💛

[@erykahhoney588]

Right. I wanna volunteer

[@MaritzaRodriguez-tt6fh]

@@erykahhoney588 🙌🦆

[@DrummerJacob]

Well there is now! It was probably just a duck enthusiast with 2 ducks and a YT channel, but now its a full on international corporation. LMAO

[@MaritzaRodriguez-tt6fh]

@@DrummerJacob 😆😆

[@javiruiz8365]

@@DrummerJacoblol 😂I find this comment hilarious

[@fafoy17]

im filipino but those filipinos who run that business should be penalized for animal cruelty guaranteed someone left them somewhere too hot

[@boutiquebitcoin809]

They were making balut where you boil live ducks alive in egg and eat whole

[@cynthiagonzalez658]

​@@boutiquebitcoin809 Yeah but we don't abort our human babies.

[@nadimahbogart2705]

Cruelty because the eggs were somewhere too hot? Dude they intended to boil them alive that’s the cruelty that needs penalised.

[@tomcat5151]

​@@nadimahbogart2705 Seriously? Cruelty? Grow up. People eat animals.

[@tomcat5151]

​@@cynthiagonzalez658tf are you talking about

[@jmcg9822]

They didn’t “accidentally” hatch. Balut eggs are intentionally incubated until they’re just about to hatch, then they are cooked. What happened is she didn’t calculate when they would hatch correctly/ they weren’t distributed in time. The productions and consumption of balut is animal cruelty.

[@Ieatpaste23]

Asian culture never fails to piss me off.

[@thegreatreceitatingplatypu5529]

Go vegan!

[@Ieatpaste23]

@@thegreatreceitatingplatypu5529 No.

[@AliciaGuitar]

Do you support abortion? Im curious how many animal activists are pro-choice 🤔

[@jmcg9822]

@@AliciaGuitar ​ always someone to trying to make animal welfare into a political argument about women’s right to autonomy. For the record the difference between abo rtion and a balut egg is one is boiled right before it’s ready to hatch and the other is the destruction of cells, or in the case of a deformed non viable fetus it’s the destruction of that severelymalformed fetus which in most cases would have abor Ted itself before or shortly after birth anyway and in the few cases where it didn’t happen that individual would live a painful existence being a severe financial, physical, and psychological drain on any individual forced to be it’s caretaker. In any farm or veterinary clinic the morally correct and empathetic decision is to put an animal like that down, but when it’s a human, no it has to $ufur for an indeterminate amount of time to appease people’s uneducated primatebelief systems.

[@sandyc.5017]

GOD bless these volunteers.

[@illiniwood]

Duck eggs hatch in 28 days. These poor ducks are cooked alive. How horrific!

[@janc8199]

They eat dog in parts of the Philippines too. This doesn't surprise me.

[@junc3354]

​​@@janc8199 you won't believe me if I'll tell you that... the native dog meat takes better than all kinds of meat you can find in the market... next to that is the water buffalo meat.. that's according to my taste buds. tastes better...

[@theoneandonly1158]

​@@junc3354 still won't eat dog or cat. You can eat whatever you want. Like I care.

[@Yzzami]

@@janc8199 at least the dogs aren’t eaten as puppies like those poor baby ducks

[@AriaIsara]

Yes it's truly vile. Should be illegal.

[@BlackSeranna]

“Unexpected”, when I am a farm girl and realize just how delicate the brooding process can be for ducks sitting on eggs. Wow.

[@jennifermathis3983]

THANK YOU DUCK SANCTUARY!!!!! 💓🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆

[@trudichoate1950]

Poor babies 😢

[@kathleendonnelly6077]

Now the little ducks who are left will have a nice life. I did not know there was such a food thing as the baby duck eggs.

[@XxBrittany20xX]

Yea. It's popular in the Philippines and some other Asian countries

[@offgrid1356]

The baby duck gets boiled alive inside the egg

[@kathleendonnelly6077]

@@offgrid1356 I would not eat that.

[@t.y.5565]

It's disgusting!!!!

[@MyFiddlePlayer]

@@offgrid1356 I understand eating one of these if you are starving and find an egg and have no other options, but to do this on purpose is disturbingly mean.

[@cooliipie]

Does anyone else find this morally difficult? They care so much about these creatures and call them babies and are sad when they die, yet they were supposed to be half born food for human consumption????

[@crescendyr8438]

Nope.

[@lisazoria2709]

Yes. Blame the Filipinos. 🤷‍♀️

[@Ryan.Hannah]

They only become ducks after they hatch. 😳

[@badiskool9159]

It tastes pretty good

[@tpf92]

Yeah, was pretty disgusted when I heard that part.

[@apemancommeth8087]

Imagine cooking baby ducks in their shell! Imagine the baby duck inside 😢

[@AriaIsara]

It's perverted and horrific 😢

[@bambicrandi]

It’s called Balut.

[@aquariusmoon771]

So sad 😢

[@apemancommeth8087]

@@bambicrandi I know what it’s called! I’m just saying, imagine the baby duck that’s essentially alive in the shell being boiled alive! There’s no way to kill it before cooking! Have you ever seen experiments where they remove a small piece of a egg shell and watch a growing baby bird, they are definitely alive in there so all I’m saying is that it’s a brutal death!

[@Hocuspocus-et2fg]

Imagine eating (as they do in developed countries) an adult lobster that was boiled alive and was trying to get out of the pot. Instead of judging, understand the culture through the food.

[@kayc421]

That's a cruel dish. They cook them while inside the egg...geesh!

[@lindasmith3978]

Duck is probably the spirit animal of TIMING. I’m impressed by their duck smarts.

[@mikeunknown-xh5oh]

Don't eat than eggs than. Don't eat anything that is eggs process.

[@Heyymynameisjbells]

Omg the poor babies😢 sending my love. RIP to the ones lost .

[@Prettykittychimi]

That’s not a good survival rate. My chicken is currently sitting on a duck egg. Started off with 4 but turns out only one is fertilized. I feel sick to my stomach thinking about anything happening to it. Only a couple weeks left until it hopefully hatches.

[@steve3po13]

You better get more chicks having one animal raised alone when theyre a herd animal is pretty fucked... seems like you don't know shit about raising livestock 😂

[@mobstercrow7515]

Ducks have a good survival rate, these didn't due to bad husbandry (care). Baby birds need a large enclosure with a heat lamp on one side set to a specific temp. They also require fresh food and water on the warm and cool side. Since these ducklings were unplanned, they didn't have good care. Also, there is a high chance that your baby duck will survive. I've had 2 clutches of chicks and only 1 died from each clutch. My first clutch was 8 silkie eggs, 6 hatched and 1 died. They were born outside on a cold winter night without me knowing it. The next morning I noticed the babies and I rushed them all inside. My 2nd clutch was 4 eggs, 2 buff orpingtons, a game chicken, and a silkie x orpington cross. The game hen died at about a month old sadly, the little guy became lethargic one day so I put electrolytes and probiotics in their water, sadly the baby died the next morning.

[@jomarcentermjm]

Duck eggs for balut wasnt ment to survive that long.

[@HappyHarryHardon]

Duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck…where’s the damn goose?!

[@jrviade85]

dancing

[@DagNeb_It]

😂😂😂

[@lcssay]

It got cooked first. 😮😂

[@Offramp-z7p]

Oh, that made my morning. 😄

[@Sunset4Semaphores]

That's pretty funny.

[@ericmknsana2608]

What the duck?!?! 🐣🐥🦆

[@aliciamonroe615]

I appreciate when the News adds info on where a person can help out, I feel I can only help out on local matters because my budget is low, but most of us can still add 5 or ten to the pony.

[@levmoses742]

So glad the woman chose to save them and that there’s a sanctuary to help!

[@javiruiz8365]

Nope! That lady left them to die and that’s why only 90 survived

[@theoneandonly1158]

​@@javiruiz8365 oh look at you. The one without sin. 😊

[@theoneandonly1158]

Same. I'm glad she called them. It was an unfortunate accident.

[@levmoses742]

@@theoneandonly1158Unfortunate and wild! Imagine the shock. Yay for all of us who try to cause less harm in the world 😅

[@marie23926]

​@@javiruiz8365yup once they weren't good enough for eating she wasn't interested anymore.

[@TheBattleMaster100]

Life finds a way. -Dr. Ian Malcolm

[@Unicornsandufos]

I remember I donated my duck at the Hollywoodpark. I hope they get a good home

[@Shelly_Vibez]

Ill save the ducks. A dream of mine 😢❤

[@ComradeCooper]

This is a simple case of Filipinos forgetting to pay the refrigerator bill for balut

[@jonnyfendi2003]

Ugh

[@ComradeCooper]

@@elizabethchase6528 Hell if I know.. I am only half Asian.

[@Bunny11344]

@@jonnyfendi2003they’re delicious. And the way Chinese do bbq duck or pecking duck y’all missing out

[@ricdeza44]

They don't put balut in the fridge😂😂

[@ComradeCooper]

@@ricdeza44 whatever haha, it was still a funny comment.. sticklers to every joke detail jeez lol

[@ChonkyCats]

Ducklings are so cute

[@Fearlesslyobedient]

Bless these precious babies!!! 🙏 their chirping is so beautiful! 🐣🐥🐤

[@pibly7784]

Hope they get the funds and people they need. 👍❤️

[@WineSippingCowboy]

Opinion. Send them to Northern California, the area full of grasshoppers 🦗. Ducks 🦆 will eat them, even when grasshoppers fly. They can fly at maximum 20 mph. But, this is too slow 🐌 because a mallard can fly 100 mph, fast as a fastball from Nolan Ryan, Randy Johnson, et al. Ducks 🦆 can also hide in water 💧. Then, they can fly to eat grasshoppers.

[@mimi1o8]

I’m glad i haven’t eating eggs in more than 4 decades

[@WineSippingCowboy]

@@mimi1o8 When I am with Jewish ✡ friends or other Jews, I eat either chicken 🐔 without eggs or eggs 🥚 without chicken, either not in the same meal. A few rabbis met quote Exodus 23:19 and say that not mixing eggs 🥚 and chicken 🐔 is an extension. Other religions do not follow either. When I was in The Philippines 🇵🇭, many restaurants serve recipes with eggs and chicken in the same dish or meal. I ate balut. Nothing special to me. The same thing with veal. I avoid both for the past 25 years, not out of spite but out of preference: other foods taste yummy 😋 to me! 😎

[@meatpopsicle1567]

Those ducks would just end up becoming raccoon food.

[@HustleMuscleGhias]

And they also poop everywhere. They rank second in the levels of filth that they generate. First place goes turkeys and third place goes to chickens. I've kept and raised all three and know what I'm talking about.

[@WineSippingCowboy]

Right ✅ That is a big problem with raising them! 🤢

[@pohanahawaii]

🐣🐣🐣 So 500 ducklings died due to being kept in poor conditions and only 90 are left being helped at THE DUCK SANCTUARY. Surely, once the ducks hatched, it should become animal cruelty cases???

[@blahblah8372]

Probably. U should get on that case. Thx!

[@victorygarden556]

They took them to a rescue genius. Not animal abuse. Animals die sometimes. It’s hot.

[@theotheleo6830]

Please update us on what your attorney advises.

[@alisont.6940]

It should be criminal law, brought by the prosecutor not an individual bringing a civil suit, for those making snide comments here. Animal cruelty is a felony but so much is allowed in the realm of agriculture that it's hard to know if there's any chance.

[@victorygarden556]

@@alisont.6940 you a vegan? More animals die getting mowed in fields of crops than you think. If not, you contribute to that issue. Moralize more why don’t you? You just indict yourself

[@tarabooartarmy3654]

I am so thankful that animal sanctuaries exist! Remember to donate to one if you can afford to! They make a huge difference to the world.

[@HellosunshineUSA]

This happens all the time when it comes to duck eggs. I’ve never heard of hundreds of them hatching in the same time but it does happen

[@gabriellelee7119]

Thank goodness they were saved. Balut is disgusting! Even if I'm Filipino, I just can't fathom eating this poor ducking out of its shell. No way!

[@JustTiisLeague]

Tell me what country you’re from and I’ll tell you what’s disgusting from yours RACIST

[@princessazula6161]

So are the people that eat it.

[@Whatnok]

Gross and inhumaine😡🤢🤢😡

[@theotheleo6830]

Like a lot of "strange" things that are now a common part of our diet, the first consumption of a bird embryo was likely due to hunger.

[@cindy4628]

but eating a full grown duck is different??

[@Dragontamer135]

Baby duckies are adorable

[@arfriedman4577]

Much success, health, happiness and blessings to all.

[@Ginger-dn2lx]

Knowing an egg is fertile and waiting for the baby to grow so big just to eat it just sounds sadistic to me

[@Vannguyen_69]

food man

[@drregmonster4371]

abortion

[@user_abcxyzz]

So does killing cows for your burgers and turkeys for your thanks giving

[@SL-lz9jr]

Weird take. All eggs are fertilized eggs… these aren’t the same as unfertilized human eggs from an ovary… and unless you’re vegan… you already consume animal products.

[@blobbertmcblob4888]

@@SL-lz9jr No they're not. Hens lay eggs without a rooster, female ducks lay eggs without a male. Those eggs are not fertile.

[@Mikehunthertz51]

Holy ducks wow 600. Best of luck to these ducklings ❤❤❤

[@thaigirl7152]

This is awesome they survived!

[@evilsharkey8954]

Well, some of them. Most of them died

[@tinycnyc]

There is no way they could have taken care of those 600 ducks. Ducks poop so much. They would have to be cleaning those cages every hour.

[@Aisha-721]

Very cute little baby ducks

[@ElaineWall-l4p]

Jesus says to treat animals with respect. They will have to answer to JESUS one day!😢😢😢😢😢😢

[@Lauren-vd4qe]

BOILING FERTILIZED EGGS??? what??? thats ducky MURDERR!!! shd b outlawed!! that restaurant shd b charged with cruelty to animals!!

[@edwardnigma2216]

Going from 600 to 800 ducklings down to a mere 90 makes me question the competency of the "volunteers"... And exactly where they're sourcing their "chicken nuggets" from...

[@atonybiz4608]

Poor babies. Hope they make it.

[@flickrennels]

Amazing-too bad we don’t have that much compassion for all the abandoned children of this country ; where we’d do anything to find every child a safe home 😢

[@virgie6983]

Yup they pretty much get mad about ducks or any animals being abandoned but few when it comes to kids . There are also many who advocate abortions even if these babies are already fully formed as a human.

[@BlitheApathy]

Funny and sad at the same time. Poor little fluffballs.

[@theresehopkins1581]

Oh!!!! 😂❤❤❤❤🎉😊... What an adorable situation!!! 😅🤣😂❤❤❤ God bless that lady for calling you....❤🎉 and God bless you for caring for them!!!🙏❤😊

[@0animalproductworld558]

give me the ducks!!! they are so cute.

[@TheJamandberries]

This kind of stuff makes you become vegetarian

[@kennydude7971]

It makes me hungry

[@israeliqueen153]

not me. boiled eggs for tuna please.

[@mfranck1]

VEGAN

[@knoelle1357]

That dish is barbaric, they basically boil alive unhatched ducking chicks and then eat them, feathers, beaks and all. I don’t understand how anyone could eat that knowing a conscious living duckling was boiled alive in its own egg. It should be banned. It sounds like it tastes disgusting, too.

[@TheTrueOnyxRose]

Not me. Although I know there would have been a veggie/vegan preacher yelling at me for eating meat. But they never seem to get after non-human predators too. 🤦🏼‍♀️

[@Dimaz42]

This can't be the only occurrence for this type of food.. wonder what happens to other ducklings in the other "accidents"? 🤔

[@hobbychicken7084]

They get made into chicken nuggets.

[@madero-jb5ri]

Turn into fertilizer

[@evilsharkey8954]

If you find out, you’ll probably wish you didn’t.

[@janc8199]

Probably disposed of the same way male baby chicks are.

[@marie23926]

I hope people help but i dont understand why the go fund me goal is $150,000. Ive seen lower amounts for funeral costs. Glad the person was honest though and asked for help.

[@sommmeguy]

Weird. Before they hatch - food. After they hatch - adorable pets. Makes ne want to be a vegetarian, but Babe and Bambi taste so good.

[@cruzin54321]

No they are not always ‘adorable pets’ people also eat duck, have you never seen duck hanging in a restaurant window? This incident was a whoops and became a rescue and now likely become pets. Babe and Bambi taste too good… dang.

[@kenet71]

🥓🥩

[@sweetcherry7759]

I eat meat, but fetuses?? That’s evil!

[@meatpopsicle1567]

Grown up ducks are food.

[@SoulessStranger]

It's not freaking weird considering their intended purpose was to be boiled alive close to hatching time. I have no problem with eating unfertilized eggs and grown animals for meat but fertilizing hundreds of duck eggs so that you can eat a boiled alive fetus in them that by that time has developed nervous system is just inhumane.

[@juliau.6332]

It’s not very hard to care for them. All they need is clean water and food.

[@craftykat]

They eat fertilized eggs after the baby ducks have been growing inside? That is disgusting! Poor baby ducks.

[@hobbychicken7084]

Yes. They have feathers and everything. They boil the egg with the baby duck inside. After it’s done cooking, they crack it open, drink the “soup” from the top and dip the rest in vinegar. It’s actually considered a delicacy in many countries and an aphrodisiac.

[@lf3361]

GROSS

[@Gemma_626]

They are not life until they are born... isn't that right?

[@SoulessStranger]

@@Gemma_626 Birds close to hatching even peep in the shell to communicate with their mother and siblings, at 18 days they have fully developed nervous system and are aware of their surroundings. So they are literally boiling birds alive with no way to run. If your comment is a dig at abortion then I have to burst your bubble but at 3 months old the human fetus does not have developed nervous system and is not aware of its surroundings.

[@Gemma_626]

@@SoulessStranger name checks out

[@adebeautybox]

Aww 🥰 they were meant to be here a little while longer.

[@littlecougarkitty3063]

People are just gross, heartless, cruel and evil. I am NOT talking about the rescue. Do you know that duck eggs take around 30 days to incubate. If the evil monsters boil the eggs at 19 days, you do the math and the scenario.

[@simonfea2]

Why do.people insist on abusing animals!! Why!?! Disgusting. I wish I could donate to the sanctuary.

[@RenZen136]

Why is balut allowed

[@hobbychicken7084]

Because humans deemed it so.

[@pushslice]

Same reason we allow burgers to exist, and obese people at the beach.

[@pushslice]

same reason hamburgers, or obese people enjoying the beach, are both allowed.

[@madero-jb5ri]

Balut is healthier than McDonald's

[@Gemma_626]

It's pro choice

[@smuchkinz]

Praying for you and those ducks.

[@MochiColorsZanos]

Poor babies 🥺 I hope they all get healthy and live very happy lives 🙏🏻💫💫💫💫💫💫💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

[@thetanz8111]

Good. I'm glad they hatched.

[@user-mt2uj8xl2u]

What a sick dish!

[@princessazula6161]

Only gross dirty peoples would consume that.

[@aiaesthetics1124]

It’s part of the culture so stfu you uncultured swine.

[@hobbychicken7084]

It’s quite cruel yes. Eating a fetus.

[@ll51019]

Have you try guacamole toast 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮

[@mikewhocheeseharry5292]

It’s basically like eating a chicken and egg all in one. I believe it started as a street food for farmers or field workers since it was convenient for them to carry back in the old days. I don’t eat it, but I have seen it before.

[@robin7499]

The woman with the business who dumped the ducks on the sanctuary should contribute.

[@scottyoung1489]

Good People really do exist, that gave me hope about humans actually being HumanKIND.

[@Vosonxunes]

your videos are the perfect blend of education and entertainment!

[@tarawhite4419]

So cute

[@Ranstone]

800 Ducky surprise battle royal. "90 Duckies remain"

[@manuelcamacho4915]

It's a good sign

[@royalnovember66]

Me now looking for a pet: *Stares at the duck eggs on the supermarket shelf*

[@rosenia5409]

A lot of people get so bored of their pet duck though, hopefully a lot of ducks won’t be abandoned at a park with a pond, etc. Seducktive and Uncle Ben taught me this.

[@rosenia5409]

Uncle Ben from Urban ranch if anyone’s curious

[@hanschristianbrando5588]

Even carnivores have limits. How can anyone eat something so cute?

[@mybucketlisting]

Funny how people reacts about eating fertilized egg as disgustung. That is nowhere near the cruelty of eatung fried chicken and how the baby chicks are treated in the mass produced chicken factory. I bet if these people watch chicken factories video theyll spit blood

[@ProtossTempest]

Or remembering how the life cycle works, and knowing the building block of life, plants and soil, pretty much are rich in nutrients from the decomposed bodies of bugs and other animals, and their dung.

[@evilsharkey8954]

Meat chickens aren’t boiled alive inside their shells when they’re nearly full term. It’s not their age that’s distressing. It’s how they’re killed, same with lobster, and, yes, lobsters can feel pain, even if it’s not the same type of pain we feel.

[@rosanneshinkle4133]

They are so cute!

[@Aaronvegan873]

Love life ❤

[@CocoBobi-nm1hc]

They are the chosen ones

[@FitChickGlows]

It should be illegal to boil and eat 19 day gestation ducks. The evil that humans can think up and do is unconscionable. 😢

[@FitChickGlows]

AND the gestation period for a duck is just 25 days!! So they’re almost fully grown!! And they’re BOILED ALIVE in their egg!! THAT IS SADISTIC!! DEMENTED!! BAN IT!! How is that under the radar of PETA???

[@AriaIsara]

People are vile 😡

[@marie23926]

Kind of the same idea of how people boil their seafood live because they claim its fresh. I've always felt, if you kill the animal 2minutes before is it not still fresh?? Unnecessary if you ask me but 🤷

[@mevans4953]

Ethnic food tends to not consider the morals of their source of food.

[@FitChickGlows]

@@marie23926 Totally agree about the seafood. I can not go to a lobster restaurant or eat any seafood boiled alive. Yes, just quickly kill it just before boiling, without the cruel suffering. Even in the Old Testament God actually had laws in place about NOT causing animals undue suffering and fear when killing them. He hates cruelty to animals. In fact they have found now it causes stress chemicals to come out in the blood and flesh of the animals that’s not healthy for us to ingest. So it’s a win win when we respect animals welfare.

[@tanimaghosh1779]

Hats off to the rescuers and volunteers , they are doing a great job 🎉. Sadly in the other part of the world young people are being killed simply for protesting peacefully and the leaders of the country are avoiding their responsibilities. Every life matters. Those leaders should learn from the West to value human life and human rights.

[@Floratic]

There are ducks all around my neighborhood. I would say out of every 10 duckings that hatch, maybe 3 survive to adulthood.

[@pamelamays4186]

Save the fluffy babies!

[@kellylestig4941]

I have never heard of a duck sanctuary. What a great concept. I love you guys for what you’re doing, and if I was there, I would volunteer every single day unfortunately, I’m in Colorado as far as people eating balute eggs, I think it’s an inhumane way to eat because the baby chicken is ready to hatch when they boil it alive.

[@starriderkittykat9064]

Anyone who eats eggs that have a baby in it is sick!

[@madero-jb5ri]

We're not sick; we're very healthy.

[@Gemma_626]

But, the left days they are not babies until they are born

[@starriderkittykat9064]

@@madero-jb5ri sick in the head!

[@SuperChaos002]

Anyone eating balut is not someone I could ever consider a friend.

[@terryowen6759]

I try to respect other people's cultures but this cooking unborn ducklings needs to be against the law. It's not a necessity that this type of food be provided to anyone for any reason here in America

[@Dreidcs2]

Quinua works for feeding chicks and baby ducks

[@Delbert51]

Ducks make great outside pets- You won't have any snails in your yard w/ducks!!

[@jeannefoster5594]

Or slugs!

[@themaskedtalker2171]

They'll eat a lot of bugs for you!

[@BoxOfQuackers]

Balut is such a cruel food

[@Gemma_626]

How is it cruel?

[@madden919]

Well, at least the distributor did the right thing and got some help for ducklings but wow, I wonder if she’ll decide not to deal in the duck eggs anymore. That is a lot of cute little living things 😭

[@rer1967]

Amazing, people show more compassion for ducklings than they do for helpless fetuses.

[@sblijheid]

I'm at the opposite part of the country, otherwise I'd happily volunteer.

[@californianorma876]

YOUR LAUGHTER AT THE CLOSE... NO WORDS

[@thefakebluejay5394]

i sincerely hope he was laughing at how cute the surviving ducklings were, and not at the 700+ dead ducklings…

[@teej1991]

I always think of the dice game when I hear Balut. hope these babies find homes.