Duck eggs can easily be hatched by using broody chicken hens
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For more details video on brooding of chickens using a duck check this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g83VuESp0qE
Do you know the hens can brood the duck eggs for you. You can leave them with their mother because a mother always takes care of their child because mother is always a mother. More and more individuals are choosing to hatch duck eggs, in choice or in place of chicken eggs. There are a few different ways to hatch ducklings, but using a chicken is perhaps the simplest method. Duck eggs can easily be hatched by using broody chicken hens. I put some fertile eggs under her (the hen). She incubated them very well and as soon as they hatched she started taking care of the ducklings as her own child & use to feed them regularly as you can see them in this video. For the small poultry keeper there is the choice of two methods of hatching chicks - natural or artificial. The best idea is to gain experience and confidence in both. Hen eggs take 21 days to hatch, duck and turkey eggs 28 days, most goose eggs 28 - 30 days and Muscovy eggs 35 days. Some very small bantam eggs may be a day early and really large poultry such as Cochins may be a day extra.