12 days to go

Well Lucy the duck has been sitting on 10 eggs for 16 days now. She is very dedicated and will hatch some ducklings. Maybee not 10 but think she will have about 70% success rate. It takes 28 days for a duckling to hatch, and about 12 weeks if I remember rightly for a duck to mature as an adult. Then it is roast duck. Yum yum. Last time she hatched 3 ducklings, from 4 eggs. One egg was a dud, she trampled on another duckling which died, and the 2 survivers are down the back, being a duck and a drake. She is a Muscovy duck and is a good mother. Go Lucy.