Wondering ‘can a chicken raise a duck?’ The answer is yes, though you may need to be patient. If you want to learn how to hatch a duck egg without an incubator, you should consider using a broody hen.

The bird's owners said they noticed their chicken sitting on a duck egg and had no idea how the egg got there Georgia Slater is a staff editor on the Parents team at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

However, early on April 30, she noticed the mother duck had left to forage but never returned. "It may have met a natural predator," she said. After consulting experts, they decided to move the eggs ...

A broody hen has taken these three ducklings under her wing after they were abandoned by their impatient mother who fled the nest before they hatched. The Maran hen - desperate for chicks of her own - ...

Ciara has written to me from Wexford with an query: "Last summer, I bought two Miniature Appleyards, one duck and one drake. We still have had no eggs from our duck. When will she start to lay? I want ...