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It depends on the breed, some breed of ducks are more broody than others... There is nothing you can do to make a duck go broody and you can't stop a duck from being broody. When your duck starts to lay eggs don't take them away leave the eggs untouched when there are about 8-12 eggs laid in her nest she might go broody and incubate them until they hatch, while some other ducks will lay their eggs any place like in the middle of the garden, on the pen's floor etc,etc.... A broody duck will make a nest in a well hidden place and lay the eggs there.
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∙ 14y agoWith my hens, I take some pretend play-food eggs and place them on the nest. After a little while a hen would become broody. It's quite simple although my hens can go broody naturally.
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How do you hatch a duck egg without an incubator or mama duck or broody hen?
With a Momma Duck! Or you can use a broody hen, if you have chickens.
How do you know if a duck is broody?
If a duck is broody, it will lay on a 'nest' and make peculiar growling sounds when anyoneapproaches and she may become fairly aggressive.
Will a red jungle fowl go broody?
I would say that 99% of them will go broody. They are right up their, if not better than gamefowl about going broody
I added a duck egg in with my chicken the chicks hatched this morning the duck egg need a week what do i do?
Put the duck egg under another broody hen or bring it inside and place it in an incubator.
If there is a rooster in with chooks how do you make the chooks clucky and hatch their eggs?
If you are asking how to make the hens go broody, then there is no surefire way. To encourage broody-ness, you should put fake eggs in her favourite laying box.
How do you hatch Indian runner cross apple yard duck?
by incubator or with a broody hen, hatch them the same way you would hatch Any other duck egg
What if a female duck is sitting on rocks and thinks their her eggs?
It used to be a common practice to put stones under hens and ducks to encourage them to go broody. It will also keep them broody longer, and stones are good temporary substitute if you want to inspect a fertile egg away from the nest. Of course they cannot hatch stone eggs no matter how long the poor duck sits on them. In my experience, they do eventually get tired of the whole thing and will leave the nest after abut 45 days of broodiness (normal time from brood to hatch is 28 days in ducks). The unfortunate part is that once the duck is satisfied with the number of "eggs" under her, she will not lay eggs during the broody state, so there's no fresh eggs for breakfast and desserts.
If i gave my broody chicken a set of duck eggs to sit on what would happen?
She would happily hatch them out! I know of someone who hatched out ducks under a broody hen. They hatched out healthy but the mother hen was just a little surprised when her 'chicks' began to swim! :-)
What part of speech is the word broody?
Broody is an adjective.
What are the magic words to make a penny disappear?
"go the duck away"
If i gave my broody chicken to look after fertilized duck eggs. What would happen?
i gave my broody chicken 6 duck eggs bought off of e bay last summer, and in exactly 28 days all six eggs hatched and she looked after them faultlessly, she couldn't work out why at 3 days old they where happily swimming in water and she couldn't though, but she made a wonderful mother and am about to repeat the process this summer
Will a hen always become broody in its life?
It depends on the individual hen, and what breed that hen is. Not every hen will go broody in her lifetime. There are many breeds - such as egg layers - that have been breed to NOT be broody. So therefore, the chances of breeds like that going broody are slim to none. However, you have breeds like cochins and silkies that are very frequent brooders.
