Muscovy drake trying to mate with the broody female duck while it is sitting on the eggs?!!

[Hamudazahabi]

Hello,
I searched a lot about this problem before deciding to post, and I didn't find anyone talking about it.
I have two muscovy drakes and two female muscovy ducks, and I know that is a very low ratio, but I couldn't buy more than two at that time because of the price, and I am planning to buy more later.

So just now I saw the male duck came to the female duck which was sitting on the eggs, and then started trying to catch its head. I noticed it was resisting, but soon enough, that drake was able to catch its head with its bill. When I saw that, I noticed he was now trying to jump on her, and he is so heavy so I was scared of the eggs under her breaking. So I immediately came to them and removed the male duck and placed him near the other female, perhaps he could mate with her instead, but I don't know what happened after. That female duck would take a break, so he could mate with her at that time, but he came to her while she was on the eggs.

I am not sure what I should do, as I am not sure if he would do that again later. (There is a very aggressive drake and a less aggressive drake. The one that did that was the less aggressive drake, as the more aggressive drake was busy attacking me.)

 

[Blue is my chicken]

I would separate the drakes from the girls, he will likely try to mate her again, if you had more girls I would say remove all the other ducks from the broody but 1 girl and 2 boys is just not enough
Hope this helps

 

[Farmgirl283420]

Like @Blue is my chicken said I would separate the boys for now. Hopefully the eggs will hatch!

 

[Hamudazahabi]

Ok thanks! Right now for me it's midnight and they are sleeping.

By the way, I have a pullet who kept laying its eggs on a table and then left so I would take them, and some times it would break them accidentally. Two days ago it sat on the table and didn't leave except for food then returns. It makes the sound a broody hen makes when I come near it, and it also does something weird with its feathers making it look much bigger. I think it thinks all its eggs are there. I prepared a box and I put it there and put all two eggs that are not fertilized and a plastic egg to see if it will sit first, as I have some of the eggs I took from her in my incubator so I left them there for now. It sat on the eggs and seemed normal, but when the night came, it jumped on the edge of the box and slept like they usually sleep on a stick, instead of on the eggs. I went to it and it made the same sound of a broody hen even though it is not sleeping on the eggs. I don't know what it is thinking of in that head...

 

[Blue is my chicken]

Ok thanks! Right now for me it's midnight and they are sleeping.

By the way, I have a pullet who kept laying its eggs on a table and then left so I would take them, and some times it would break them accidentally. Two days ago it sat on the table and didn't leave except for food then returns. It makes the sound a broody hen makes when I come near it, and it also does something weird with its feathers making it look much bigger. I think it thinks all its eggs are there. I prepared a box and I put it there and put all two eggs that are not fertilized and a plastic egg to see if it will sit first, as I have some of the eggs I took from her in my incubator so I left them there for now. It sat on the eggs and seemed normal, but when the night came, it jumped on the edge of the box and slept like they usually sleep on a stick, instead of on the eggs. I went to it and it made the same sound of a broody hen even though it is not sleeping on the eggs. I don't know what it is thinking of in that head...

she probably just doesn't know what she is doing, first time broodys are unreliable
I would leave her with fake eggs till she gets the idea and once she understands give her fertile eggs

 

[Farmgirl283420]

Before my one hen goes broody she always sits on and off before actually committing and staying on her nest.

 

[HollowOfWisps]

Agreed. Before broody’s fully commit to setting eggs they will be on and off. It’s the hormones slowly building up. Once they get the full hormone rage they are dead set in brooding.