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What happens if you give your broody chicken to look after a set of duck eggs?
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She will probably brood them, and care for the ducklings when they hatch. It's a pretty common practice to give hens that are known to be good brooders the eggs of other fowl to hatch. Just make sure you provide the ducklings with plenty of duckling MASH - the hen won't know the right kind of food for them.
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How do you make a duck go broody?
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.
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
What are the symptoms of a broody chicken?
A broody chicken is when a hen decides to sit on her eggs... even if there is no rooster around, and even if the eggs belong to a bunch of random chickens on the flock... they will just sit on the eggs hoping to hatch them out, i guess.
What is what is a chicken clutch?
A Chicken clutch are the eggs that the broody has decided to sit on. "Clutch" is the word used in terms of the eggs she is sitting on.
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.
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! :-)
Will the body temp of a hen be enough to successfully hatch duck eggs?
Oh, yes. I have successfully hatched many ducks under broody hens for the past 35 years. In fact, when using an artificial incubator, the temperature for the chicken and duck eggs should be set at a steady 100F.
Is how do keep baby duck eggs without an incubator?
you could put them under a broody chicken. it may not work but you could try a heat lamp, they need one once they hatch anyway.
How do you know an egg is a duck egg?
Most duck eggs are larger than a chicken egg. PoultryTalk's Response: Smell the egg, duck eggs have a scent chicken eggs dont. Also most are glossy and sometimes they are a greenish color. Also duck eggs are usually thicker.
My chicken is sitting on top of her eggs and when I get close to her with another chicken she starts screeching why is this?
You have a broody hen and she is warning the other chicken to keep away. She is protecting her clutch.
Will a chicken keep setting if she is not setting on any eggs?
Yes, a broody hen will sit in an empty nest, but not for long. The longest I've seen is one week with no eggs under her. Normally a chicken's egg will take 3 weeks to incubate. I have placed turkey, duck and goose eggs under chicken hens, and they will sit for those 28 required days and then take on another batch immediately for another month of sitting.
Will your chicken eggs hatch out if your broody hen came of the eggs for 1 day?
it depends if they got cold, if they got cold they wont hatch, they will be dead
