Incubation

[SrPato]

Hi! Well, Sra Pato was laying eggs a few months ago, but they weren't fertile, so even though I let her hatch some, I ended up removing them because she was shedding a lot of feathers.

The problem is that months have passed, but she incubates anything like a mobile, a pen, well, everything is kept.
It is true that now I see her more "animated", but she spends a lot of time lying down and when she is in the patio she gets bored and even "cries" so that I let her come home.
Is it normal for me to act like this? Before laying eggs, she was more animated, she walked around the room, flew through the patio, climbed on top of the door to sleep, and it seems that she does not like all that and he just likes to hang out on the patio a bit, eat and lie down. Even before she used to bathe and now she's scared of the water! She runs out of the plastic basin when I put her inside.

Sorry for the English but I use a translator so it doesn't take long to write haha. Thank you.

 

[nchls school]

Hi! Well, Sra Pato was laying eggs a few months ago, but they weren't fertile, so even though I let her hatch some, I ended up removing them because she was shedding a lot of feathers.

The problem is that months have passed, but she incubates anything like a mobile, a pen, well, everything is kept.
It is true that now I see her more "animated", but she spends a lot of time lying down and when she is in the patio she gets bored and even "cries" so that I let her come home.
Is it normal for me to act like this? Before laying eggs, she was more animated, she walked around the room, flew through the patio, climbed on top of the door to sleep, and it seems that she does not like all that and he just likes to hang out on the patio a bit, eat and lie down. Even before she used to bathe and now she's scared of the water! She runs out of the plastic basin when I put her inside.

Sorry for the English but I use a translator so it doesn't take long to write haha. Thank you.

The translator has done a very poor job and your post makes little sense; I assume that's why no one has replied.

From what I read, it sounds like your duck is/was broody, the eggs did not hatch but she continues to brood even though you have taken the eggs, and you don't understand her changed behavior. Is this correct?

 

[SrPato]

The translator has done a very poor job and your post makes little sense; I assume that's why no one has replied.

From what I read, it sounds like your duck is/was broody, the eggs did not hatch but she continues to brood even though you have taken the eggs, and you don't understand her changed behavior. Is this correct?

Thanks for answering. Yes it is. She spends most of the day lying "incubating" anything

 

[nchls school]

Giving her new, fertile eggs would not be good in that she has already brooded a long time????? If she's only been brooding a couple weeks you could give her some new eggs to hatch. You could possibly find some newly hatched ducklings for her to raise. Putting ducklings and some clean egg shells under her at night is usually enough to convince a brooding duck they became moms overnight.. Yes, behavior does change with broodiness, but will change back when broodiness ends.

 

[SrPato]

Giving her new, fertile eggs would not be good in that she has already brooded a long time????? If she's only been brooding a couple weeks you could give her some new eggs to hatch. You could possibly find some newly hatched ducklings for her to raise. Putting ducklings and some clean egg shells under her at night is usually enough to convince a brooding duck they became moms overnight.. Yes, behavior does change with broodiness, but will change back when broodiness ends.

And when would the broodiness end? Currently I can't get fertile eggs and I'm sad to see her incubate anything

 

[Ratchnick]

Destroy the nest and keep her out of dark corners to stop broody behavior.

 

[SrPato]

Destroy the nest and keep her out of dark corners to stop broody behavior.

I did that almost two months ago, and although she no longer plucks so many feathers, she is still a bit broody She usually gets on my bed and spends hours and hours lying down giving heat to anything that she keeps. I try to avoid that, but when she goes out to the patio soon after she starts "crying".

I don't know if I should let time pass and she go back to how she was before or "force" her to do things