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One thing you don't want to do is put an egg under a hen if yolk is not absorbed and showing chickens will most likely begin pecking at it.
I put the egg so the hen would not see the duckling.
But I will remember it for next time (if "next time" there is!)!
I have had chickens hatch ducklings and they do a very good job so let them have a try without interfering.
I did not have any other choice, since I understood my Brahma would not take care of the eggs anymore...
One of my other Brahma did the same not long ago, and I had to put the eggs underneath another broody hen to save ducklings! (I could then save two, thanksfuly.)
These two Brahma actually don't feel like they know how to be good mothers : they quit the nest much too soon, and they let me hold their babies...
I even wonder if the 3 ducklings are not dead in their eggs BECAUSE this Brahma hen did not keep humidifying the eggs...? (After the first ducklings hatched...)
I am sorry you lost those 3 hopefully the other has a good chance.
Thank you!!
I finally put 3 of the eggs underneath my broody Wyandotte : she already hatched 10 ducklings, but she likes to take her time to quit the nest after her babies hatch...
I hope at least one duckling is going to be born soon, since I heard peeping from one egg...!
(And I think I saw movements in an other egg when candling?!)