My duck is sitting on chicken eggs

Brooke Carson

Chirping
Jun 16, 2023
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Colorado
My duck went broody and stole some chicken eggs and now she's sitting on them and won't let anyone near. Will she actually hatch them? Will she raise them? We have 2 female ducks in with a bunch of chickens and two roosters. Could this work out or will it end badly? We also have one other hen currently brooding eggs of almost the same duration, so we can always steal them from the duck and put them under the hen if we can avoid death-by-broody-duck. ;) But we were curious if the duck has any chance of raising the chickens at all. We also have no duck pond in the chicken run and we just let the ducks out of the run to use the kiddie pool, so if chicks drowning is a concern, there's not access to water like that and we could regulate/schedule her dips in the pool around the kids socializing the chicks or something.
 

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