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There is 16 eggs now in her nest and 6 in first nest. I was going to buy an egg incubator today but shop closed.

I would say it's a good thing a female duck lost its voice.

My duck made a nest laid 6 eggs then made a second nest elsewhere and today laid her 10th egg in second nest. Question is can I get the 6 eggs from the first nest and put then on the second nest?

BTW I did separate them but should I keep them from hen? Or separate hen and ducklings from drake? She's building her 3rd nest and the Drake and hen scout area for stuff to build nest.

Could it be the Drake trying to keep the ducklings away from the hen as just today I found her nest and it had 6 eggs. She used to sit together with the ducklings and the Drake all by himself and the past few days the ducklings lay together under bushes or my bearded iris or other plants and...

He was doing it to only a single duckling not all of them. My neighbor said he knows which 1 is a male and might be trying to get rid of the male duckling or that the duckling could be sick and he's trying to get rid of the sick duckling

Is it normal or what does it mean if male duck is grabbing 1 of the ducklings and throwing it around. Duckling is 2-3 weeks old. Mother duck doesn't do anything about it. Male duck did it twice then I stompped my foot and he stopped and the 2 duclings left. They were the only 2 that hatched out...

Today I seen the duck eggs and they had faint cracks and some were moving a bit. Does this mean they are about to hatch. Mother duck was laying on too of most eggs and I could only see 2 that looked like this. There is a total of 23 eggs.

I have a duck that is on her second nest. First nest she laid 24 eggs none of them hatched. She then abandon the nest. After a week after she abandoned and not going back to next I disposed of eggs. I cracked then none of then had any embryos. Here my question she's on her second batch of eggs...