- Feb 21, 2016
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I have a question about muscovy's laying frequency. Most of my other laying ducks have, once they start laying, consistently lay daily- every other day. I have two ducks, the muscovy (Lucy) seems to share her nest and sit on the other duck's (Persi's) eggs. I usually collect them daily but on a few occasions there have been 4 eggs in the nest at a time (for a day before collecting). Is that enough for her to get broody? And, would her "adopting" Persi's eggs delay her laying. She went 2 days without laying- then when I checked on her today she was sitting on the egg that Persi had just layed. They started laying at the same time, and initially would lay consistently. I'm curious because I've never seen this behavior before from any of my other ducks and I'm always tracking their egg production ever since I lost my egg bound 9 month old ancona last year. This is my first time raising a muscovy and I'd like to be able to gauge what's "normal."