Mandarin duck sitting question/

Emmet Mcknight

In the Brooder
5 Years
Nov 28, 2014
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Derry, Ireland
I have a pair of mandies and the duck started laying on the 12th of this month, she has laid 11 eggs, she was hiding them with straw in the nest box up until the tenth egg, yesterday she seemed to spend the whole day in the box with the male outside keeping guard, today she is back out and I checked the nest, there is now down feathers in the nest and 11 eggs but not covered up and they were all stone cold, is that normal?
 
Great, hope they are fertile now! Never actually seen them mate, seen them splash about and dive under the water and seen the duck lay flat on the water and the drake groom her back but never seen him mount!
 

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