This is a first!

[AUTZ]

Not only is one of our hens broody for the first time, one of our Momma ducks went broody, too. Funny part, EVERYBODY was laying in the same area of the barn so it's rather like one big nest SOOOOO....every day for two weeks now the Hen and the Duck fuss over the eggs and BOTH end up sitting on them. I've told my son to get a picture of this I can't get close enough (because I'm just getting off my walker and my phone camera is horrible). But from where I can get to to see them, it's a site to behold, especially when one is sitting a top the others head. Eventually they get it worked out and are sitting so tightly together you couldn't fit a feather between them.

I wondering though... when the eggs go to hatching some chicks some ducklings what exactly will happen then?
I promise to post pictures soon!

 

[KikiLeigh02]

Oh my gosh! I can't wait to see your pictures!

 

[AUTZ]

Let me add, we generally collect the eggs to either eat or incubate ourselves, but we wanted to see if a hen or another duck would brood We just had a Muscovy brood her own eggs because they notoriously hide their nests and we had 6 baby ducklings part Muscovy, part Rouen. She was so happy because for years she'd sat on none fertile eggs (we'd had no drake) and it was so sad to have to take the away after 2 months so many times. She mourned also. But, this time, she was one PROUD MOMMA, with her broke bill & wing walking the out showing them off. I think she hates them now (they are 6 weeks old) because she's a loner and they are a bigger than she is still trying to follow....

So after she did that, we decided to try to see if any of our older (or younger) hens and ducks would sit and brood. .. We had no idea the whole lot of them would start laying in the same place and that both a hen & duck would brood.