Might be get more ducks?

A couple of weeks ago, we put a few runner duck eggs under Olga, but she seems too heavy for them and they have been breaking, looks like none will make it to hatch unfortunately. So we got some more, and now a chicken is sitting on some with a few in the incubator too.

We’ve never tried incubating duck eggs before and it is meant to be more difficult than chickens. Hopefully a few will make it at least. Runner ducks are an egg breed but we hope the spare males will be a nice size for two!

The chicken decided to go broody in the box where most of the chickens want to lay. Historically this has caused issues when we want them to brood the eggs as they get pushed off them and some get pushed out the nest and broken and bad things like that. They also don’t take well to being moved we have found, so I have put a cage round her with food and water and moved the nest box along for the others. She has 8 eggs in there, go chicken!

All looks a bit heath robinson, but hopefully it will work for them all!

There are 8 in the incubator too. I’m hand turning for the first 10 days as I have read it has better results (the eggs move continually when automatically turned, and sporadically for hand turned may be the difference - or it may be myth!)