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* This is another example of a star gazer, as it may appear in a hatch basket. This duck should be placed in the cull box so it can be humanely euthanized. * This bird has black feathers. Duckling with black feather are undesirable as we utilize feathers in the making of down products. One single black feather will cause a down product to loose significant value. We do not ship these ducks to growing farms for this reason and absolutely avoid EVER placing them in future breeder placements. Ducklings with black feather are culled on the farm and should be culled at the hatchery. This duck should be placed in the cull box so it can be humanely euthanized. * This bird has a white spot on his head is usually indicative of other problems. This duck should be placed in the cull box so it can be humanely euthanized. * Here is the same duckling from the previous slide, it has an improperly healed navel. This duck should be placed in the cull box so it can be humanely euthanized. * Here is another example pf a duckling with an infected naval and most likely infected yolk sac as evidenced by the large swollen abdomen. This duckling poses serious disease risks to it pen mates and is suffering. This duck should be placed in the cull box so it can be humanely euthanized. * This very wet appearing duckling is called green. This duckling has lagged behind in hatching time and is not ready for shipment. This duck should either be replaced in the hatcher immediately to properly dry off in a properly controlled environment or be placed in the cull box so it can be humanely euthanized. * Here are some green ducks, they are newly hatched and are not shippable. This duck should either be replaced in the Hatcher immediately to properly dry off in a properly controlled environment or be placed in the cull box so it can be humanely euthanized. * The duck on your right is good healthy duck, the duck on the left is green the down is not quite dry and fluffy. * One final example of a g