Duck hatching chicken eggs

[TarynLord]

hey guys so my muscovy hen has been going broody so much lately so we decided to let her sit on some chicken eggs. she hatched out 10 of her own ducklings back in April so I know she can do it! My question is how long can I keep adding new eggs? shes got maybe 8 under her right now. when she laid her clutch that she hatched she laid it think 16 eggs, 1 egg everyday, but I removed the one she laid each day after like a total of 13 eggs under her. so what would be a good number of eggs to stop at? somedays I will put 1 egg under her sometimes 2 or 3 depending how the girls are laying. Thanks!

Pic of my beautiful MaryJane

 

[nuthatched]

You have to give her eggs all at the same time, otherwise you end end up with a staggered hatch, which complicates things.
If she's not setting broody yet, you may have a chance of a full hatch but if she's been setting for the past two weeks and you've been adding eggs everyday...unfortunately there's a good chance she won't wait for all of the eggs to hatch and leave once a few hatch.

 

[Ducklad]

subscribing to this thread. I want to see the outcome!

 

[TarynLord]

Our scovy MJ hatched out 3/6 chicken eggs that we put under her! we got one BrahmaXCream Legbar and 2 Jersey GiantXIndio Gigante! We hatched a Brambar out a few months ago and he looks the exact same as the one that hatched this time, but we are very excited to see how these Indio mixes turn out! I will try and update weekly on their growth! first 4 pics of the babies that hatched and last 2 are pics of our brambrar that hatched last time we suspect that this one is also a boy and will look very similar to him!