Muscovy keepers share your pics!

[Going Quackers]

well i have two girls. does this mean they aren't going to hatch them? if so why? i picked them up but is there any way to make them sit on the eggs?

Make them? not in my experience... either the instinct is there or it's not, i have one who has never gone broody. Then i have one who is a royal pain, which is how i got 4 ducklings in Mar. Honestly, i am usually discouraging the idea around here, you have drakes, right? and a safe area for the them to possibly nest? that is all i do and it has yielded babies.

I take a let and let leave approach here unless i don't want babies, then i take the eggs, but hey, i can only handle so many, they don't pay for the feed lol

 

[kendradillon]

 

[EdenCamp]

OMG! That diaper is a scream!

They may not have understood and dropped an egg is two places or both girls may be laying. IME They aren't going to get serious about setting until they have the clutch built up they want to hatch. Once that nest is full they should hunker down.
Think about it, heat of mama sitting on them gets the babies cooking. If she did that all along she'd have weeks of hatching and a wide range of young to take care of.

 

[Miss Lydia]

So cute

 

[bribre]

Nice Pictures! The two broodies on one nest remind me of the yin-yan symbol (aside from the colouring of course )

Are they getting along with each other or are they bothering each other?

I also love these pictures of the adopted ducklings

@ Miss Lyida: I do believe that they are muscovies but I had never seen muscovies standing upright like that so I was interested what others would have to say about that

Haha yah your right it dues kind of look like a yin-yan symbol. they get along great and that nest is never left with out at lest one of them siting on it. Can't wait to see the two of them taking care of the same ducklings. Lol ill be sure to share pics ones they hatch.

Duck love if you want her to sit I would take the eggs for one nest and put them in the other. Ones there's about 10 eggs in the one nest she may decide to go broody for you.

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[Duck Love07 AR]

there is only two eggs. is that normal? i mean this is the first time. how many do they normally lay at one time?

 

[bribre]

They only lay one egg a day.

 

[EdenCamp]

12-22 is what I recall. The girls may share a nest entirely community style or share a nest until one claims it and broods down and the other may go off and create her own then.

So sure, collect the eggs into the best nest spot of the two and let them go to it til one or both clamp down on that nest..

Remember it can be 37 days to hatch once they get past laying and start brooding.

Up to 6 nests going here with 2 gone broody. Another two with hens that have gone broody with thier own eggs mixed with duck eggs. Spring is here and everybody is getting baby fever!

 

[Going Quackers]

How many they will 'set' on will depend on the birds, my last hatch, she sat on 5 eggs, produced 4. This was her third nest. When they start plucking the down they are serious.. here a shot while my last was broody. You'll see how she stacked up all the bedding and has pulled the down.

 

[Going Quackers]

Duck love if you want her to sit I would take the eggs for one nest and put them in the other. Ones there's about 10 eggs in the one nest she may decide to go broody for you.

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Perhaps my ducks are just odd but i have never found that to work, they have a pre-set idea on what they want to sit on & when, i don't think there that broody, not like i hear silkie chickens are who will brood on a rock lol