Duck not sitting on her eggs

[cbeaudin]

I have 4 females, all laying eggs. Every morning I get 3 eggs in one nest in the duck house. One female stays outside next to the house and lays an egg out there.

I'm wanting to hatch some ducklings, so I decided to stop taking the eggs from the nest in the house.
It has been a week now, and there are 20 eggs in the nest, but none of the females appear interested in sitting on the eggs.


I live in Colorado and it is still dipping into the low 40's at night.

This is their 2nd laying season, and the first time I have left the eggs in the nest.

Should I collect all the eggs and try again in a few weeks? Should I give it a few more days?
I see lots of "activity" between the males and females, so I am guessing the eggs are fertilized. Will the ducks not sit on unfertilized eggs?

Thanks in advance for any ideas.

 

[buff goose guy]

this is a very simle answer that fully answrs your question some ducks just dont want to sit on their eggs.

 

[cbeaudin]

Well that's not what I wanted to hear.

Is the implication they will most likely never sit on their eggs?

 

[DucksAndGardens]

Domestic ducks generally don't go broody the way chickens do. Although on occassion one will decide to nest. In which case she will go off on her own where she can't be found and lay her eggs there. In a place that is probably inaccessible.


The rest of us just stick the eggs in an incubator rather than wait for a duck to go broody.

 

[buff goose guy]

Well that's not what I wanted to hear.

Is the implication they will most likely never sit on their eggs?

Well thats they way it is

some go broody and some don't .
some will change their minds and go broody it all depends on the duck