Duck Troubles
Hatching
- Apr 15, 2024
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I'm not exactly familiar with properly hatching eggs, as most of the times that I try they always fail. Currently, I have a broody duck, she has been broody for going on 4 months. Her original eggs failed so I decided to give her an egg from my first flock of ducks, however, each egg that I gave her ended up going missing! For each egg I give her I mark with an A, B, and so on. For the past 2 months or so each of her marked eggs has gone missing, this is only after about a week and a half of egg development. I've chalked it up to the chickens eating them but because theirs no evidence of them being eaten it seems odd. My coop has layer boxes sitting on the wall so a snake is a little out of the question, but even if it were in the question why is it only eating the eggs I mark? Just today I went to go check on one of my duck's eggs, I was thoroughly excited as I heard noises coming from the egg just a day before, but when I went to go check on the egg it was gone. My coop has two parts, one for the webbed feet and the other for the chickens. At the moment my duck is staying in the chicken area because she doesn't get along with the others, we don't have rats but we do have squirrels that live on the top of the webbed feet coop. I was wondering if it may be them stealing my marked eggs. Any help would be greatly appreciated!