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4/8/12 at 12:16pm

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Muscovie hens can brood 20 ducklings at a time, and ducklings are quite a bit bigger than chicks. I'll be brooding three batches of one hundred layer chicks this spring and summer. A farm in the area is selling adult muscovies. I can keep them away from the pond till the chicks are chickens.

Questions:

Has anyone else done this?

Can I get them to go broody with dummy eggs at this time of year?

How many chicks can each one handel?

How should the nests be set up?

How long do I have to let them set before adding chicks?

I got the idea because a friend of mine got muscovie ducklings that were almost fully feathered and some mix breed downy ducklings one of the muscovy ducklings brooded the mix breed ducks. Now that's what I call a broody.

219 chicks in the brooders.

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4/8/12 at 1:55pm

OreoPlymothRock

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i dont really know. can you do some research on google?

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