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Duck eggs need 28 days to hatch, compared to the 21 days that chicken eggs require, but a broody chicken can, and will, successfully sit on duck eggs for the entire four-week incubation period. To help maintain the proper humidity, duck eggs benefit from putting a piece of sod on the bottom of the nest and misting the eggs once a day. Remember that the ducklings won’t have the protective oils a mother duck would impart to their feathers at hatch, so swimming should be limited for the first few weeks. But the look on the mother hen’s face when her “baby chicks” hop into the water tub and start bathing will be priceless!

A chicken will sometimes sit on a nest of duck eggs.