Old fashioned Broody thread for ducks 2013 edition

[keirys]

well my female duck stopped laying i miss counted when i said 20 its still 19 i thought i saw more but she is sitting for good now and i forget the day its on lol im so bad with remembering the days but i just have to wait 28 days then my babies hatch

About time

Now the real waiting begins

 

[farmer boy]

About time

Now the real waiting begins

yup gonna be for ever lol .. my drakes got loose and they went straight for my female and they got her off her nest trying to mate her the stupid things lol i got them back to their spot and she went back on her eggs .. she made it all nice put feathers in around the eggs and its a nice circle now so ya now the waiting begins

 

[Duck Drover]

One of my ducks had 13 eggs under her and that was after we had pulled out three. Since the eggs we pulled and added to the incubator hatched yesterday, I candled the eggs under her with a flashlight last night while it was dark and one was internally pipped. It looks like only three are developed, the rest seem to be infertile, so I pulled them and put them in the hatching incubator. Two are pipped so they should hatch later today, the third may not hatch because I am not sure I saw any movement (I saw something move but it may just have been from turning the egg around). At least I don't have to worry about the crows getting the newly hatched ducklings, even though this was the well hidden nest in the first picture I posted. I would like to get the duck laying again with higher fertility of her eggs so I will probably need to take all the eggs away from her and make her start over. I had two young drakes running with six young hens but it looked like the hens were often outrunning the drakes.

 

[ScrapperJohn]

hi i have a i beleive a pekin sitting on eggs. shes buit a very big nest from hey. i have two other females that share the pen at night. and i know they are all laying there eggs in that nest at night and only the pekin sits on the nest during the day. there should be 12 eggs in the nest by morning, since they each lay 1 egg per day. will they stop at one point or will there be a crazy amount of eggs. if so should i relocate the other two ducks?

 

[sherrik9]

hi i have a i beleive a pekin sitting on eggs. shes buit a very big nest from hey. i have two other females that share the pen at night. and i know they are all laying there eggs in that nest at night and only the pekin sits on the nest during the day. there should be 12 eggs in the nest by morning, since they each lay 1 egg per day. will they stop at one point or will there be a crazy amount of eggs. if so should i relocate the other two ducks?

I had a similar situation with 2 calls. One built a big nest and both layed eggs in the nest. Eventually they built another nest next to the first and swapped eggs back and forth. I don't know for sure who hatched how many but I ended up with 15 call ducks with co moms.

 

[keirys]

yup gonna be for ever lol .. my drakes got loose and they went straight for my female and they got her off her nest trying to mate her the stupid things lol i got them back to their spot and she went back on her eggs .. she made it all nice put feathers in around the eggs and its a nice circle now so ya now the waiting begins

HAHA!! yeah it seems like it. At least yours is alone in the barn. Mine is in the same run along with the others... I was planning on putting another door to the coop so she has her own place to get out, without anyone bothering her. She refused to get off the nest this morning I just left her alone, it is really cold this morning she probably doesnt want the eggs to get cold

. Other than that I have no clue!! I have to clean both coops today so we will see.

I cant belive how much down they pluck off themselves

 

[keirys]

hi i have a i beleive a pekin sitting on eggs. shes buit a very big nest from hey. i have two other females that share the pen at night. and i know they are all laying there eggs in that nest at night and only the pekin sits on the nest during the day. there should be 12 eggs in the nest by morning, since they each lay 1 egg per day. will they stop at one point or will there be a crazy amount of eggs. if so should i relocate the other two ducks?

They will stop someday

.

 

[Miss Lydia]

One of my ducks had 13 eggs under her and that was after we had pulled out three. Since the eggs we pulled and added to the incubator hatched yesterday, I candled the eggs under her with a flashlight last night while it was dark and one was internally pipped. It looks like only three are developed, the rest seem to be infertile, so I pulled them and put them in the hatching incubator. Two are pipped so they should hatch later today, the third may not hatch because I am not sure I saw any movement (I saw something move but it may just have been from turning the egg around). At least I don't have to worry about the crows getting the newly hatched ducklings, even though this was the well hidden nest in the first picture I posted. I would like to get the duck laying again with higher fertility of her eggs so I will probably need to take all the eggs away from her and make her start over. I had two young drakes running with six young hens but it looked like the hens were often outrunning the drakes.

Had to laugh on your last statement. I could visualize that one.

 

[Miss Lydia]

HAHA!! yeah it seems like it. At least yours is alone in the barn. Mine is in the same run along with the others... I was planning on putting another door to the coop so she has her own place to get out, without anyone bothering her. She refused to get off the nest this morning I just left her alone, it is really cold this morning she probably doesnt want the eggs to get cold

. Other than that I have no clue!! I have to clean both coops today so we will see.

I cant belive how much down they pluck off themselves

It is cold this morning here too, mama is sitting tight.

 

[keirys]

It is cold this morning here too, mama is sitting tight.

Should I just wait til it gets a little warmer & force her out?