chickens hatching duck eggs?

[Daycare Mom]

I have a friend with a farm and their chickens hatch duck eggs. It is very cute to see the chicken with all the baby chicks and ducklings.

 

[KingsCalls]

I've used chickens to hatch call duck eggs. They never got off of them except I had one hen that after 3 or 4 hatched she got up off of the other 3 or 4 and they were pipping. Pekin eggs are a lot larger than call duck eggs so , just don't put too many under the hen.

 

[runamuck]

One of my cochins hatched a duckling this yr... Poor thing about had a heartattack when her baby started swimming lol .... To this day the duckling sleeps with her hen mom she is now 5 mo old

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

...If you dont mist the egg, it wont hatch.

Hi! I didn't mist my duck eggs.
Maybe our humidity is high enough here without it.

Lisa​

 

[SundownWaterfowl]

Quote:
Hi! I didn't mist my duck eggs.
Maybe our humidity is high enough here without it.

Lisa

Thats probably why they hatched then. I didnt know to mist mine and only 1 hatched, with my help.

 

[MissPrissy]

You also have to watch the individual hatching the eggs. Some will kill the babies when they hatch knowing they are of a diferent species. I know of several people who had to take the babies at hatch and brood them theirselves due to this.

 

[picklespickles]

i have a chicken who tried and tried to hatch an abandoned nest of goose eggs. lol. i think the eggs were as big as she was.

 

[bestponymilo]

I use my Jap bantam to hatch everything--including duckies. I also have a game hen that will sit on anything, she hatched out 9 runners last year.