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My runners last baby hatch yesterday! 10 babies! It was a nighmare though 3 died trying to zip (2malpositioned and one zipped and the side was crushed) we had to assist 4 (2 malposioned, 1 crushed also and 1 came out and was stiil attached in the nest hadn't absorbed its yolk yet) all 4 survive...

So i posted a couple weeks ago about my broody runner nesting and setting in the brambles in my yard. I moved her into the coop with her eggs and she took them back to a different nest in the yard. Today should be hatch day and I noticed ants on some of the eggs so I candled and one was rotten...

That's exactly what my broodys hubby does! We've been calling him sarge

i completely agree with both of you. im cleaning out the dog crate and if she doesnt like it oh well she can make another nest in her two brand new nesting boxes i built that she has never even used, at least she will be safe & i have an incubator of her eggs on lockdown right now with 4 already...

I am really worried. But no their pen is big and it has two nesting boxes she is just a weirdo. I have a large dog crate I use for ducklings so how do u go about letting her out? Just open the door once a day? And her nest is attached to the ground with roots. I know that it is very hard to move...

See this is the problem she has decided to move her nest outside in the sticker bushes so last night I tried to pita shelter with an open door over the nest and she lost it! She refused to stay in it and so I took it off and she ran right back on her nest immediately. My two dogs won't even let...

I totally agree, this is my first year with a broody duck hatching her own eggs (we have always incubated) and we are not going to candle either unless they are late.

I candle around day 7 or 10 & you can see really well in duck eggs at that stage if you go in a really dark room with a good flashlight. It's later on when its hard to see in duck eggs or if they are the dark shelled ones. Good luck on your hatch!

Quackers, congratulations on your lil cuties! That yellow one is too adorable, I can't wait for mine!!

heres some pictures of silver harelequin & regular welsh harlequin runners

My broody came off just now! I'm watching her act like a fool right now, zooming around eating drinking & even took like a 30 second dip. Her husband is following her around like a lost puppy. Ohh she's already back on her nest!

For some reason I thought she already hatched her ducklings, when is the hatch date? WH really are gorgeous, I recently found out they have runners in harlequin color so it's my new holy grail of ducks! Anyway I went & checked on my broody and she stood up halfway and hissed at me so I got a...

Thanks & congrats on your ducklings! So no more ducks in the kitchen huh? Your WH is so beautiful, do they normally have black bills like her?

Thanks guys, I was getting worried & that makes me feel a lot better. I've been thinking she's been sneezing off real quick like. So if she hasn't & I do have to take her off I'm paranoid she'll abandon it. Will they do that? Another question, people always say that runners rarely go broody but...

So this is day 3 of my first time broody runner ruby on her nest & I really don't think she's come off at all, is that normal? Like ive said in my last post at least none of us have seen her leave at all so its possible she has gotten off because of course we arent watching her 24hrs a day. What...

Thank you, it's day two and she is serious! Hasn't come off to do anything that we've seen at least. Good luck with yours too, what are they muscovys(I think I spelled that wrong) are they under momma or another broody?

My runner girl had made a nest with quite a few eggs so we marked them and started taking the fresh ones out as she laid. We incubated 8 but one was a double yolker so 7 are doing awesome and on day 17 in the incubator. She was only sitting on the nest in the morning and then just stopped all...