Hi Genny 60 watt bulb should be ok, and abut 4" from the eggs, put them in a shoe box that way the heat from the bulb will cirulate around the eggs in a small area. keep them warm and spray mist them with a small amount of plain water. That will raise the humidity of the eggs and make them easier for the babies to hatch from, just like when the hen sets on them, her down feather sweat putting off a high humidity which is what the eggs will need in order to hatch. Good luck Sandy

I have nothing to offer to help, I wish I did. I hope she has improved for you.

DO NOT FEED A DUCKLING MEDICATED CHICK FOOD!!! Sorry for the yelling but the medicine in it can and has killed ducklings. For chicks it does help them but ducklings eat alot more than the chicks and it can kill them. Ducklings, or I have been told buy lots of knowledgable people, eat and eat so they will often eat to much and overdose on the medicine. Do you know what breed the duck is? Here is a great site to look at. They have pics of all the different ones as adults and ducklings. http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/Ducks/BRKDucks.html To get alot of duck info and talk to people who resuce ducks very often and know alot there is a good place to go. Unfortuanly this site has blocked me from posting the name of the place because there has been alot of spam about this place. Go here: http://www.thegoosesmother.com/id15.html scroll down to the category just after Health, Home Remedy, medicine sources. This next heading is what you look at. The very first one listed is what I am talking about. Sorry to have to be so vague, it's the sites policy that I cannot mention what I have told you to go too. This is a good page for info: http://www.thegoosesmother.com/id27.html I will tell you my ducks love cat food, the dry bits. For a little one you may need to dampen it. Lastly, if the baby is a mallard, it is more than likly illeagal to raise them. It is in alot of places. You must apply for a permit or run the risk of it being taken away from you and you getting fined or going to jail in the future. Rouens look exactly like mallards when they are babies except they have two black stripes around their eyes.

In my opinion, the 18" flex duct for supply/return is properly sized for a 3 ton gas-pack system period, 2-stage or not. Again, it is not proper to size the ductwork based on low stage. I checked the fan performance table on the 3 ton XL16c. At 400 cfm/ton, on high stage it will move approx. 1200 cfm and on low a bit less than 850 cfm. Heating airflow is a bit different but in the same ballpark. I assume they quoted the model with 75k heat input. I strongly doubt you require the 96k model. I'm not sure I'm clean on the duct system setup. So you'll have 18" flex coming off the packaged unit, supplying one primary distribution box which branches off to two other boxes with 12" and 14" flex ducts? I'd rather see properly sized metal, rectangular (matching unit openings and transitioning as/if required) supply and return trunks coming off the unit with appropriately sized branch runs rather than flex duct everywhere, but what you describe is not all that uncommon. I don't see an issue with the 12" and 14" flex duct from a size perspective on either high or low stage. There is no "maximum" or "minimum" airflow a duct can handle, but with 1200 cfm or less, assuming the ducts aren't badly kinked, the static pressure and friction should be within reason. Are you certain they did a Manual J load calculation? Have you seen the results? I question a 210 sqft addition adding half a ton to the cooling load, unless it's all glass. Many homes have systems that are already oversized. So 2.5 ton may not be "undersized" even with the addition, but a load calc will tell for sure. Of course, 2-stage systems come in full-ton sizes, but proper sizing of 2-stage systems is still critical. An oversized 2-stage system will spend just about all of its time in low stage, acting as an expensive single stage system. I wish I could type more but have to leave. Hope this helps and doesn't add more confusion.