broody duck

  1. Dfarago

    Incubating chicken eggs with a duck

    So my Muscovy is sitting on a nest of about thirteen eggs right now and one of my chickens started laying a couple eggs. Is it ok to add those eggs to the duck eggs, let her incubate them and remove them when they start pipping? I don’t know the breed of chicken cuz I got them from a neighbor...
  2. WannaBeHillBilly

    Charleston we have a Broody here!

    Hi friends, it looks like my one year old Indian Runner Lady "Katharina" is broody: I noticed last Sunday that she spent almost the entire day inside the duck house and on Monday morning she was sitting on two eggs which she viciously and loudly defended. Since then she spends most of her time...
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  3. ColleenRyan

    My Ducks Are Trying To Hatch Babies

    Hi! My two female ducks lay on their eggs all day. One in particular lays on them much more than the other female and they become frantic when I try to check the eggs out. I candled an egg tonight outside from their hutch when it was dark and I saw some eggs were completely dark with the air...
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  4. Doobly

    Day 27 No Progress Under Broody Call

    Call Duck Eggs by Doobly posted Jun 12, 2019 at 12:08 PM Hi, I'm biting my hands off over here! So this is my first time hatching under a broody. She's sat tight in her housing with the door shut and a little food and water in there with her (chick crumb and pebbles in the water). It's day 27...
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  5. C

    Broody duck

    Hi I was wondering if anyone could offer some advice. I have a khaki Campbell (just over a two years old) who injured her leg, it wasn’t broke so I placed her on bed rest so she could let the leg heal and prevent further damage. While on bed rest she became broody and has been sitting on 3 eggs...
    • Caitlancourt
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  6. DuckWhisperer06

    Broody Duck Hen

    I’m 95% sure our Pekin is broody, she’s been on her ‘nest’ for a few days now and she gets very defensive when I try to collect the eggs. She doesn’t have any eggs and she’s still sitting on the nest. Can I block off the door and put food and water in the ‘house’? She still comes out every...
  7. T

    Move Broody Muscovy in Chicken Nesting Box?

    I have a muscovy duck who has just gone broody over the last couple of days. She has decided that the elevated (3 feet off the ground) storage tub nesting box is now her nest. She's not even a year old so I'm not sure how dedicated to this nest she's going to be. I also don't know how many eggs...
    • txbirdlady
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  8. houseandhomestead

    Broody Khaki Campbell Sitting on Eggs 24/7

    Mama Duck is so committed to her eggs, she doesn’t want to get up AT ALL. I have been having to put food and water near her and even then that’s too far. She will not budge. Any experience? I feel like I need to encourage her to move a little each day but she won’t. TIPS PLEASE.
  9. pattyhatcher

    Broody duck with no eggs

    I have a unique situation. We live on a small man made lake community, but we are in the city. It is a long story, but we rescued an abandoned sick Peking duckling at about 2 days old. We tried to make her a "lake duck" but it never worked. She is more like a dog. She has diapers, watches...
  10. PearlTheDuck

    Hatching eggs, is this ducking dead?

    My duck, Millie, has gone broody and been on eggs for 12 days, i candled the eggs for the first time today and 5 out of 7 eggs have babies in them. The only thing is, one of the eggs got cracked and i candled it to see if its still alive and im pretty sure it did not make it, but i want to be...
    • PearlTheDuck
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  11. K

    Ducks laying eggs?

    Hello. I am a new duck mommy, to two Muscovy females. However, I feel as though one is a boy. The more feminine one I think has been the one laying eggs recently. The first night they came home there was one egg in the morning. None after that single one. It has been about a month since she last...
    • Kaylawill02
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  12. Gardening&Feathers

    Confused Khaki's - sitting on eggs only at night

    Hi Everyone, we have 4 Khaki Campbell ducks, 3 ladies and 1 drake. We bought this breed knowing they don't like to sit on eggs and hatch out babies, but since we've had our 1 1/2 month old newest baby chicks out in the run with the grown ups, the ducks are babysitting them, following them...
  13. muscovy573

    First Time Muscovy Eggs

    Hey all, I have my very first cluster of eggs (9 as of this morning). The mom is off and on the nest and hasn't shown too much interest in sitting for more than a few minutes. I made the decision to hatch the eggs out this year and grow our flock! Is there anything i should be looking out for...
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