Laying Habits of Muscovies? - Page 2

I'm in my duck house daily cleaning and yes, I do disturb the nests while cleaning.  But there is always a fake egg in the nest.  They don't seem to mind me being in there but I never let them see me take their eggs.  I do it when they are away or not looking.  

My Scovie girls lay in the duck house routinely and never lay outside of the duck house.  I even have some of my girls that are on the lower pecking order that feel intimidated laying at night in the duck house so they come in during the day to lay their eggs.

Oh dear, if I chime in, I will so upset the apple cart! Mine are free-range, and lay in the evening, right after dinner! And we gather eggs every few days, and it doesn't affect the laying in the same place, NOR the brooding! Aunty Nuttin' lost her whole nest to flooding after a horrible storm here, and abandoned it for a few days, then went right back to the tree and started again! But she is my oldest girl, so maybe she is just set in her ways???

But to be honest, we are super-newbies who whave done everything wrong, so maybe she is just being patient with us!

Sybil and David

Hey, everyone!!

you are all lay chatting and my stupid muscovie wont lay a single egg, she's one year old now, i don't know if she is laying somewhere hidden in the property in middle morning or so but she should lay early before she get out :O

hope it will lay soon

Majd

My Muscovy duck started her first nest in my chicken coop's nest boxes. I had no drake, so I took the eggs and had to kick her off the nest. I got her a boyfriend, and now she has a clutch of 14 in the top level of my stock trailer of all places... I sure hope it doesn't get too hot over the next month...

She was always the first lady to lay each day, and she was not happy when I saw her on that nest yesterday- so much so that she took 6 hours or so off and hung out in the pond until she thought I was fooled or something.