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Weeg
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This totally counts! She si so cute, she looks so proud! I had a broody duck recently hatch babies. Same kinda thing. I failed by letting her sit on a community nest, they sat for 3 months and nothing hatched. We assume because the mommas were fighting over the nest, and relying on each other to do important jobs and no one did it. Afterwards, the ducklings died fully formed in the eggs and the mommas tossed the eggs and smashed them in the run. We had to pick up a whole bunch of dead duckling carcases. The mallard, who had originally stated the nest, decided to try again. So I blocked access for her so no one could mess with the nest, and she hatched 3 babies! We were so excited after picking up smashed babies for 3 months! broodies are so fun! AveryI’m not sure if this counts, but my black Bantam Cochin was sitting on two eggs, nothing developed, then I gave her another egg, also a dud, so I picked her up a couple babies, because at this point she’d been sitting over 4 weeks.
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Sunflower is the mama, with Cloud (lakeshore Egger) and Zoey (cuckoo maran).