Well, it's kinda cute actually.
Here's the story,
At Homestead Farm (where my horse and pony live) there are a bunch of hens, but no roosters. They are there for nothing more than amusement and eating fly larva. Nobody is collecting eggs or anything. Naturally the hens do lay eggs, here - there - everywhere, but the eggs never hatch of course (need roosters for that).

Also at the farm there is a small flock of ducks - no pond, no stream, no water unless we fill a small pool for them - but ducks just for amusement. Now there are drakes in this flock so, ya know, those duck eggs that appear may very well be fertile.

So one day a very frustrated hen comes across a stray large egg and thinks, "hmm, this egg looks lonely. I think I'll keep it company a while, maybe keep it nice and toasty. And by the way - WOE be to ANYONE who comes near me and my egg!"

We all go about our business, chuckling to ourselves about how funny it would be if a duck came out of that egg...



Meet Chuck the Duck, who thinks he's a chicken (of course we don't know if Chuck is a he or a she)











Somewhere in this mob are the DNA mom and dad. There is only one female and three males, so I guess it might be understandable that she abandoned her egg. Those guys are on her case non-stop. She has no feathers on the back of her head or neck.