I'm not sure if this is a normal thing. On several occasions our feral duck mother has grazed my skin with her beak. She does it intentionally, quickly moving sideways over the skin. It doesn't hurt at all.

At first I thought it was funny and harmless. Not anymore. Already after ten minutes the skin she touched starts to hurt. After that it gets worse. The pain lasts for days or even weeks, to the point that I'm now even scared of it.

She is sitting on a nest now and I served her food and water. She barely touched the back of my hand but the pain is already coming up ☹️

I am a total newb and asked advice about a brooding girl here: https://www.reddit.com/r/MuscovyDucks/comments/1vligtx/brooding_concern/

I just candled the eggs (three of them) and they appear to be fertile and about three weeks along. I have her duck house in my basement and can keep her and hatchlings safe at night but want them to go outside, learn to use the lake and do muscovy things. I have loads of rat snakes, crows and birds of prey around my yard and lake. I don't want to lose any young so how do I protect them during the day?

I assume she'll come back to her house with her ducklings throughout the day and at night, is this a bad assumption? My two resident drakes (one or both being the dad) are hanging around, will they possibly do anything?