The Mother of all duck nests!

[darwish]

My ducks are always surprising me with the places they find to build nests. But it makes my morning egg hunts so much more interesting.

 

[RAREROO]

My ducks lay at least 30 eggs in the nest before they start setting too, I don't know why becuase they cant cover them all, and fertilty is low with my ducks anyway and I have 2 setting right now, both had around 30 eggs in their nest and between the ones that were actually fertile, not double yokers, and were actually covered so they could start forming, only a dozen from both nests combined are forming so I put all of them under one duck hen and last night I gave the other on 14 call duck eggs from tonini and I'm going to let her set and brood them. But my ducks are broody as heck, it's mainly my buff ducks.
I had one buff duck hatch a dozen ducklings about 2 weeks ago, those two I just explained about are a buff and a buff X Blue swedish, and then I have another buff that just started a day or two ago, again 30 + eggs in the nest but she is young and doesn't really seem to know what she is doing, she's just kind of sitting in the middle of the pile of scattered eggs with no real attempt to build up a nest around them, but she stays on the nest and goes back to if if i desturb her and she gets off, so when I was switching the eggs around last night, I just left her a few of the warms one she was covering and gave her some more nesting material and if she stays there for good, I'll let her set some turkey eggs for me.

 

[hunterjumper999]

is therre a way to keep my girl broody after she hatches out this clutch? I'd like to buy some eggs online and let her hatch them too.

 

[Wifezilla]

She will need a break before she sets another clutch.