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I sure wish I could get my Muscovies to hatch the Geese. Because the Geese are ground nesters I have to find them and continually dust the eggs to keep the fire-ants at bay. It's a real pain. The Muscovies all lay in the cock-barrels and I don't have the fire-ant problem. The Poms make great...

I do incubate all the chickens. I will readily admit though that I have not been able to get the Muscovies to hatch the Goose eggs; they are just to large for the ducks.

Like I said, I almost always use natural incubation with the Muscovy simply because they do such an outstanding job. If they weren't so heavy, I'd use them to hatch all the chickens too!

In the normal hatching process, a Muscovy duck will get off the eggs for an extended length of time each day to eat and then bath. She will come back to the eggs dripping wet each day. In a regular year, we hatch between 150 and 200 Muscovy ducklings.

Personally, I always let my Muscovies hatch their own eggs. A Muscovy duck could hatch a rock! The thing I don't like about incubators with Muscovy eggs is trying to get the cooling off period correct. Leaving the door open for half an hour seems to work best, but the timing is the key.