We have a chicken who is sitting on a combo of duck and chicken eggs. The chicken eggs hatched yesterday, the duck eggs have another 6 days to go. We have an incubator ready to finish off the duck eggs. Any advice on how to go about this? She has yet to come out with the baby chickens so we...
OK so we decided to get some fertile eggs to place under a broody hen. The guy gave us a mix of 4 duck eggs and 6 chicken eggs. He told us the gestation period is the same for both. Does this sound correct? And is it ok to mix a brood of chooks and ducks? I read that duck eggs take longer to...
We have a 9 month old hen that appears to have gone broody. She has been sitting on the "nest" (under some bushes) where she always lays her eggs. However we collect our eggs so she has been sitting on no eggs at all for 3 days but refusing to move. She is eating and popping out for a drink and...
Our 9 month old drake lives with a female pekin duck and 4 mixed breed hens. We are hoping he will breed with her as she lays eggs regularly. However, he has little interest in her and in fact prefers to try to mate with the chickens. The female duck dances around him trying to attract his...