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This time a happy update: The eggs are hatching and so far there are 5 or 6 ducklings doing well under mom #2. Maybe the one I found dead a few days ago was deformed or otherwise sickly, so she took it out of the nest. Thank goodness. I thought this was an ill-fated hatch!

Update: well I had our other broody duck sit on the nest, and this morning found a dead duckling just outside of the nest. Great. One mom eats her own eggs, and the other one kills them when they hatch. Maybe it's time to invest in an incubator.

We had that problem last year. Had a nest of naturally hatched Muscovies, except one egg was delayed so we hatched it inside. We had to tend to her for awhile because she had some balance issues. In a week she was doing well so we put her in with the big siblings (one week older), however the...

This is very upsetting - my favorite blue Muscovy duck has been sitting on about 20 eggs for about 3 weeks with no issue. However the last four days I started finding cracked open eggs with mostly formed ducklings inside. They had been rolled quite far from the nest. I thought maybe they had...