DUCK EGGS

[Barnyard]

There is no set time that a hen will go broody. I would put them in the incubator.

 

[mahsmaj]

can you post pictures of the ducks???

 

[Wifezilla]

Khaki campbells and a magpie maybe? Yeah pictures will help.

Khakis usually do not set their eggs. Magpie? I think they can, but not sure. I would take half the clutch and see if they keep laying or try to set them. That way if they don't you will still have babies.

 

[twotmama]

I would include pictures if I knew how, I took them now I can't get them to load; thanks for the help. I just wish I knew if locking them up would help; my incubators past full and I am working on a second I'm ready for some broody hens, right now I would settle for a broody anything.

 

[Wifezilla]

Find someone near you with a spare Silkie chicken

 

[twotmama]

I actually have a silkie and she is being very contrary this year, I guess its the wheather. She is a very good setting hen; she raised a whole herd of chicks and two ducks last year. She won't go broody this year. Thanks so much for the response I have so many eggs this year I am giving them away, I just hate to waste the duck and goose eggs and I have so many this year.

 

[justhatchin]

Since you found eggs like ths last year, I say incubate them -They probably wont set them. It could be they are not ones that go broody. My muscovies will all lay in one spot, thus the nest gets full fast and sometimes no one will claim the nest they just keep laying till everyone has 14-19 eggs-x3=42+. Sometimes one will set and more than likley 2 will try to set on the one nest that ='s eggs that don't always get seton .

 

[twotmama]

Sounds right I was just hoping I guess, I was wondering will a duck or chicken set or go broody if put up with eggs or alone? Any idea? I am so frustrated.

 

[justhatchin]

NOT LIKELY. If you move them they will not likely accept them or where you put them. It becomes your nest not theirs. Some times if you even touch the eggs they will abandon the nest.

The only success I have had is where they already are thinking about setting and I have added eggs from the big nest. If more than one has laid in that nest and the head hen has taken over the nest I have moved some of the eggs to another nest and then the other hen has accepted and started setting.

I have had luck locking them in a pen with plenty of nesting spots and they have laid and set. I think it was because they stopped thinking about the fun they had outside.

 

[twotmama]

I found out I had a duck setting and a skunk or something got to it and its mate and then ate all the eggs, does that sound like a skunk or a coyote? I found egg shells and one carcass; the neck had been chewed on. I also found alot of chicken feathers, but no carcass. I'll have to lock them all up untill I find the culprit and I put all the eggs in the bator. Thanks for all the advice.