Found my duck's nest

[vfem]

Apparently my Pekin and my muscovy are sharing a nest to lay in. I found 7 eggs this morning (6 yesterday). No one is currently sitting on the nest, I took 2 out to have for breakfast and could tell no one was sitting yet.

So, should I just leave the rest incase they want to sit? Or, if no one is sitting on them by now they probably won't?

I don't mind either way, but if they are collecting them in hopes to sit on them soon... I wouldn't mind ducklings running around in a month.

 

[Friend2Fowl]

The scovy should set on them, though if there are pekin and scovy eggs both in the nest, you'll have some hatching around day 28 and some around day 35. So you'd be better off choosing one or the other to leave in the nest. You could always wait till one of them starts setting on the scovy's eggs, then a week later add the pekins eggs to the nest, that would work too.

 

[duckyfromoz]

Incubation time required will depend also on what drakes you have... A mating between 2 muscovies will produces eggs needing 35 days to incubate- but eggs that may be the result of cross breeding will take the lesser number of 28 days to incubate.

 

[vfem]

I only have 1 pekin drake, no muscovy males.

 

[RAREROO]

My ducks usually wait until there are about 30 eggs in the nest before they start, I don't know why, they can't cover that many, but I just let them go and candled about a week later and get rid of the bad ones.

 

[vfem]

I may just do that.

I was just unsure how long they would be good with a chance for them to hatch if the ducks waited this long to sit.