If the mother hatches chicks

[BigBlueHen53]

I wish it was like that with my flock of ducks and chickens I almost always find most of not all the babies dead within days

I'm so sorry to hear this. Do you need to separate the mothers and babies from the rest of the flock until they get a little older?

The hens have fat reserves they can live on during brooding, "lockdown," and hatching.

 

[Melnykfarms]

I tried again just recently and tried that too but I still found a duckling dead away from the mother and the other just gone disappeared. Another time I found 2 wedged behind a board behind the nest and the mother had gotten out. Now I just try to hand raise all the babies. I've only had success once with one of my Welsh Harlequin duck mom's maybe last year when I did it.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I guess that's the way to go then.