Rouen might go broody maybe?

[pinusresinosa]

My rouen hen has made a nest depression in her hut and for the last month her and our pekin hen with her have been laying eggs in it which I collect every day. Today, we moved these girls (who are also with a drake) to a bigger pen in an old shed. We layed down some straw and about an hour later she had made a depression and laid an egg in it (two eggs today!). She's not sitting or anything and being her normal self sort of, a little more skittish of me than she's ever been. Would it be worth the risk to leave the eggs laid in this new depression and see if she sets on them? Her or the pekin maybe? Will ducks make depressions like this, lay in them, and not ever go broody?

Thanks for the help!

 

[TLWR]

Mine make a nest, sometimes lay in the same nest, some times they rearrange. Sometimes they make 2 nests in the bin. But none of them have an inkling to sit on the eggs. Today they did put a light layer of pine straw over them.

It won't hurt to leave them - if they don't sit after you have a large bunch in there, just toss them.

 

[HollyDuckFarmer]

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