Facts of Life

It is all very well to let the pet ducks get broody on their nest and delight in the fact that they are going to have some adorable ducklings. The reality though, as we have discovered once before is that nature doesn't always turn out the way we hope.
Our last tragedy was when we lost both our female ducks to a passing fox, and then after desperately trying to incubate the eggs, we had to admit failure.
This time it seems that the hot weather and the location of the nest is working against us. We now are down to 14 eggs, with some eggs being broken and the contents obviously 'bad', and another two opened and the inner duckling not survivng. Below is not a picture of our brood, but one from google images which seems to have had the same fate.
Sad, unpleasant, tragic, but simple a fact of life, and one that we can't interfere with.