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 ...

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.

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 - ...