Chicken Sitting on Clutch of Duck Eggs

[DaffytheDuck20]

Hi all!

We have 3 chickens and 5 ducks (including drake) we have hatched ducklings before through a broody duck that didn't end very well (partly because I believe I interfered to much) and now we have a broody chicken that appears to be set on those duck eggs. This time I want to intervene as little as I can and if she suceeds in hatching them then take them away and put them in brooder (and probably sell them as my parents don't want anymore ducks but I love ducklings and stuff so yeah )

Any thoughts on what I should and shouldn't do?

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

I've had chickens hatch muscovy eggs. They did fine. It's good you aren't allowing the chicken to raise the ducklings as that can mess them up a bit and they don't see themselves as different species, and you can have issues when they are adults.