[URGENT] Help with broody goose hatching goslings!!!

[Miss Lydia]

Aww bless my hen hatched a Runner last week but I took it away and gave it to my Muscovy mama since mama hen was showing the duckling how to be a chick. Did she accept the ducklings?

 

[IceHax]

Aww bless my hen hatched a Runner last week but I took it away and gave it to my Muscovy mama since mama hen was showing the duckling how to be a chick. Did she accept the ducklings?

Yes, she hatched them herself! This was her first time hatching eggs (and my first time hatching eggs naturally lol), I hope to have Muscovy ducks next year along with turkeys so I’ll be able to give waterfowl eggs to the Muscovys and chicken eggs to the turkeys haha, for now mama hen is showing them how to be chickens but it seems to be working out, tho I noticed they are starting to scratch the ground like chickens lmao

 

[Miss Lydia]

What breed of ducks?

 

[IceHax]

What breed of ducks?

They are a couple of khaki Campbells, they are the offsprings of my adult khaki Campbell couple which I hatched in my Bator last year they keep staring at them like they know those are theirs lol, but have no intention of parenting them

 

[Miss Lydia]

It sounds like my Runners they will welcome these littles once they get big enough to run but for now mama Muscovy has the job of raising them. Your ducklings are precious.

 

[IceHax]

It sounds like my Runners they will welcome these littles once they get big enough to run but for now mama Muscovy has the job of raising them. Your ducklings are precious.

So, I let them roam the yard with mama hen this morning and chaos ensued: mama hen would call them in chicken language, they would try to follow their biological parents instead who would in turn scare them away back to mama hen, in the meantime mama goose thought those were her babies and decided to call them and follow them lol, so now the hen and the goose joined forces and help each other raising the ducklings... starting to think I could give her babies back to her once they get to 5 weeks or so...

 

[Miss Lydia]

I think Mama goose would take them. Get some pics I’d love to see them now. These are my 2 Runners one hatched by mama Muscovy the other by Mama hen

 

[IceHax]

I think Mama goose would take them. Get some pics I’d love to see them now. These are my 2 Runners one hatched by mama Muscovy the other by Mama henView attachment 2176747

It’s 12:39 am here lol, tomorrow I’ll get some pics