A Question About Ducks - Broodiness?

[Dances with Ducks]

There are problems with just using a light, mostly it won't keep the eggs humid enough. The eggs also would need to be turned several times a day like the mother duck does. Also you need to keep the temperature in a certain range. Some people on this website have made home made incubators, I put in links to a couple of their pages. It's quite a project to make one of these and then to do everything right to get ducklings to hatch in them, but maybe you would be interested in trying.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=1996-chic-chick-bator
https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=16572-the-incubator-irator

 

[Daniel_2kaii9]

thay got 12 eggs now and still not sitting what should i do ?

 

[Dances with Ducks]

You've done all you can do. It's up to them now, it could still happen, but most domestic ducks don't ever go broody.

 

[Daniel_2kaii9]

so just leave the eggs in there is it?

 

[Dances with Ducks]

Leaving eggs is an encouragement for a lot of ducks to go broody. After a while the eggs will go bad, four weeks or longer probably, but you wouldl be able to tell by the smell. Unless you want to stop trying and eat the eggs instead! Or make them an incubator.

 

[Daniel_2kaii9]

would pet shops sell scratch grains ??

 

[Dances with Ducks]

The pet shops around here don't. I find it in feed stores which cater to livestock animals. Where do you buy your duck's food?

 

[Daniel_2kaii9]

in a pet shop i feed my ducks laying pellets and some times chicken corn

 

[Dances with Ducks]

That's the place then!

 

[Daniel_2kaii9]

what shall i do if i get some scratch grains ?