Duck eggs are hatching!

[Miss Lydia]

Ok

. I have it inside right now in a box, (with a light over it and food and water) I was gonna put them back with the chicken after it dried up. Also does it imprint on you the second it hatches.

You'll have to be extremely careful since you have taken them from the chicken mama she may not recognize them as hers and injure them. Does she have any eggs left under her to hatch? they imprint on the first living thing they see.

Are you a teen? taking ducklings, chicks from mom at hatch means they don't get to imprint on her and her them. Was this your intention to have them imprint on you that means you'll be sole care giver until they are old enough to leave the brooder which means full time job.

 

[Crazy4Fowl]

You'll have to be extremely careful since you have taken them from the chicken mama she may not recognize them as hers and injure them. Does she have any eggs left under her to hatch? they imprint on the first living thing they see.

Are you a teen? taking ducklings, chicks from mom at hatch means they don't get to imprint on her and her them. Was this your intention to have them imprint on you that means you'll be sole care giver until they are old enough to leave the brooder which means full time job.

Being the care giver was the point until they get big and old enough to go outside.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Being the care giver was the point until they get big and old enough to go outside.

Then keep them inside unless mama is still hatching then it would probably still be safe to put them back out. But if the goal all along was to bring them in once hatched. Then you know what to do from here on out. You have other ducks?

 

[Crazy4Fowl]

Then keep them inside unless mama is still hatching then it would probably still be safe to put them back out. But if the goal all along was to bring them in once hatched. Then you know what to do from here on out. You have other ducks?

Yes, these eggs are from our own ducks, (from another state, we shipped them, otherwise we would have a duck raising them). There are 5 more eggs under the chicken.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Yes, these eggs are from our own ducks, (from another state, we shipped them, otherwise we would have a duck raising them). There are 5 more eggs under the chicken.

That's alot of duck eggs under a chicken I don't think I'd put the ducklings back just brood them yourself. Just my opinion though. what happened you move to another state left your ducks at original house now wanting to get back into ducks again?