Can ducks lay 2 eggs a day?

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Getting two eggs a day is not unheard of but it is a bit unusual to get them consistently. It takes 25 hours for an egg to go through the process of being made by a chicken so I assume it's about the same for a duck. I have an all hen flock and my ducks mount each other sometimes, especially in the big kiddie pool. If they are both quacking you have two hens. Also a drake would have a tail curl is the breed comes from Mallards.
 
My girls have gone into overdrive after last weeks almost 80 degree days. I have 3 layers and only 3 ducks and I started getting either 4 or 5 eggs a day last week. At first I thought they were old eggs I'd missed in the nest box so I emptied it and put in all new straw again.

They're all normal sized and hard shelled.

They've run through a bag of oyster shell in the past week.
 
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lomine said:
Getting two eggs a day is not unheard of but it is a bit unusual to get them consistently. It takes 25 hours for an egg to go through the process of being made by a chicken so I assume it's about the same for a duck. I have an all hen flock and my ducks mount each other sometimes, especially in the big kiddie pool. If they are both quacking you have two hens. Also a drake would have a tail curl is the breed comes from Mallards.
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thanks for that. Today I spoke to the man whose eggs I hatched and he said the same thing: have they got a tail curl? If not, I have 2 girls. Well, 2 girls it is then. So, I guess I need to retrieve those eggs from my broody and think again. New question: DO DUCKS MATE FOR LIFE? ARE THEY MONOGAMOUS?
 
We have a pekin who would lay two a day for her first few months (not every day, but usually once a week). Sometimes both were fine, and sometimes one was soft or shell-less. After they took a little break this winter, she started laying two a day every couple days again, finally balancing out after a month or so. She did not seem all bothered about it and is as healthy as her cayuga sisters, so don't worry too much about it.
 
I have a pekin, cayuga, and a cambell that have been lating since August an egg a day like clockwork. About a month ago, I would begin to find 4 eggs in the box, an occasional 5 eggs, and tonight I just pulled 6! I'm sure they will get back into rythm soon but for now we are enjoying the extra bounty. Plus it comes just in time for fall pumpkin and apple pies!
 
I have 1 drake (call duck? snowy mallard?) and 3 females (khaki campbell, magpie, and a small white duck do not know the breed, larger than the Drake). The females are approx. 7-8 months old and started getting 1 white egg every day anywhere except the house. But twice already, in the house, approx.4 days apart, I found a nest of eggs. the first was 3 blue 1 white. Yesterday was 5 eggs, 4 blue, 1 white.
 
Charlieee said:
So I have this question which needs an answer!
I have this duck, and she has just started laying in the nesting box amazingly. I would have thought she would choose around the dam but I guess not.
She does not have any other chickens or a type of bird in her cage that can lay an egg. But everyday for a few days I go in there, and there are 2 pure white eggs in the nest. I take the eggs out then come back the next day and there are 2 PURE WHITE EGGS AGAIN!

I could not belive my eyes! She is one amazing duck, but how is she doing this? There are no other ducks or chickens that can be laying these so it must be her!

Thanks
Charlieee
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I have a 2 year old Pekin that lays 2 eggs some days. It always surprises me!
 

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