Chicken hatched ducklings.

[Lost8211]

I had a chicken that went broody and I decided to go ahead and put fertile hatching eggs under her. They were not Chicken eggs. They where Ancona Duck eggs. She accepted the eggs as her own. A weird thing happened. Normally I've read that duck eggs take 28-30 days to hatch. Well the eggs hatched earlier than I thought. The babies where internally pipped by day 24 and all of them hatched between days 25-26. All the babies are doing well and they are very active. My hen has accepted them as her own. I'm still trying to figure out what caused an early hatch. It was hot for a few days last week but that was it. I wonder if anything else could have caused this.

 

[MountainWoman73]

No idea... but I want pictures of this funny family.