Our Broody Duck Scrooge

Our duck Scrooge has been sitting on a nest under a tarp which is over a straw bale, since about March.  She has been very protective of her eggs but they won't hatch, no boy duck.  So, my son Nick and I got a duckling and tried to get Scrooge to accept the duckling.  Nick took Scrooge away from the straw bale so she couldn't see me take her egg out, and put the duckling in the nest.  When he brought Scrooge back she kept kicking the duckling out.  But we persisted for about an hour and Scrooge finally accepted the duckling, and let is spend the night.  Today the duckling followed mom around, and mom was very protective.

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