nolamimi504
Chirping
I need some advice. My female, Goldie has finished laying her first clutch; she has 20 in her nest, which is a little doggie bed, and she’s laid every one in there. She removed 7 of them, so she laid a total of 27 eggs. I placed my grandbabies video camera monitor in the Quack House for a few days to see if she was sitting on them at night, which turns out she would for a few hours till the males begin squawking and she gets up to see what’s going on and doesn’t return to sit on the eggs. The last 3 nights she has sat on them but at the slightest hint of daybreak she’s up and squawking to get out the house with the others. I have even tried removing the bed and bringing it outside to see if she would sit on them and nada, she’s more interested in foraging, swimming in the pool with the other ducks, or playing in their mud pit. Today, I broke down and purchased an incubator, my issue is do I just incubate the eggs since she doesn’t seem to have any interest in hatching them naturally? If so, what impact will it have on her if I remove the eggs? These may seem like crazy questions and I’m sure someone has asked them somewhere along the line in a thread but I’m wondering whether to begin setting up the incubator. She only began sitting on the eggs late at night after the male was trying to sit on them LOL.
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