Broody Biscuit is a horder, Biscult now has nest mate;(2nd update)

[featherfooted]

My silkie Biscuit has been broody for about 2 weeks. Well, yesterday I looked at her and she must have 13 or 14 eggs under her sort of. She is nesting under the nest boxes in the for back and must have been rolling any egg that gets layed on the ground under her, most of them duck eggs. She looks like the cartoon of the hen seating on a pile of eggs. I plan to candle all of them and only letting her keep the ones that are developing. Of course, she will keep rolling eggs duck eggs under her.

Checked on Biscuit last night and found She had a nest mate. It seems that one of my Rouen ducks has decided to go broody and since Biscuit had all the duck eggs She thought She would just help sit on them. So Quackers and Biscuit are both sitting on the same nest which has enough eggs for both, I think about 18 eggs. Its going to be interesting to see what hatches and who mothers what as the nest has both duck and chicken eggs. I don't think I'll be candleing them as Quackers starts hissing if I get too close.

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

she looks real serious! LOL

 

[Chicky Tocks]

LOL! Now that is pure unadulterated silky determination! Is there any way you can segregate her where she's at? Pen her in so that she can't get to the duck eggs?

 

[mayapooh]

What a great pic!

 

[featherfooted]

Checked on Biscuit last night and found She had a nest mate. It seems that one of my Rouen ducks has decided to go broody and since Biscuit had all the duck eggs She thought She would just help sit on them. So Quackers and Biscuit are both sitting on the same nest which has enough eggs for both, I think about 18 eggs. Its going to be interesting to see what hatches and who mothers what as the nest has both duck and chicken eggs. I don't think I'll be candleing them as Quackers starts hissing if I get too close.

 

[redrocketrooster]

Haha! That's adorable and comical all at once. XD

 

[acid_chipmunk]

That is too cute!

I hope my Silkies have that much determination!

 

[moderndayhippy]

Oh how sweet!

 

[featherfooted]

Candled the eggs in the nest and 14 were developing. I removed 7 that weren't, so they had 21 eggs in the nest total. All but 1 duck eggs. Now all are duck eggs and looked like they were at different stages of development. I'll just have to wait and see how this all works out and who mothers who. I also learned that a broody duck bites pretty hard. I had to laugh at Biscuit as every time I raised Quackers up to get an egg Biscuit would reach and roll another egg under her. Both are determined to be mothers. I hope at least a few hatch, they are working so hard.

 

[silkiechicken]

You'll probably want to mark the eggs under them now so you know if there are new ones to the nest that you'll want to remove. The parents will probably leave with the first few that hatch, so time to fire up that incubator if you want to "save" the remainder of the eggs that got started later than the first few.