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Duck and hen coparenting a goose!?
Just wondering if anyone has had experience with this? I have a black sexlink hen & and Runner duck who sat on an African goose egg together......and it hatched! Now they are co-parenting (today, gosling is 4 days old). The baby goes back and forth snuggling under each one, so cute! - they... -
baby duck imprinted on me - now what?
Anka the Black Swedish duckling hour 5 hour 12 1 hour after hatch sorry - long post! Recently my chicken hatched her eggs - she was sitting on chicken eggs and duck eggs. Of course the chicks hatched before the ducks did, so she got off all of the duck eggs but one. She stayed on... -
Hen sitting on chicken and DUCK eggs
My Cochin hen is hatching out chicks as I write this. Problem is, she's also sitting on 6 Swedish duck eggs! I'm afraid that once all the chicks hatch she will get off the eggs and the ducks will not get a chance to hatch since they require a several more days of development. Can I use a heat...