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That's assuming that you can catch them. Not going to happen around our farm, alas.

So...about the same age as mine (going on 3). Maybe they'll start laying again soon. We processed all our old chickens, and are eating duck eggs we froze last summer, and our new chickens should start laying in another month and a half, but I really miss the duck eggs.

How old are your ducks? (Mine have now gone 6 months without laying.)

Our ducks (2 1/2 year old Swedish blues) haven't laid an egg since the end of July. Any idea when they'll start laying again???

Swedish blue ducks

I thought about that, but nothing when I stuck my hand in, or when the sheep drank from it. And I've never seen any of them come even close to getting their feet stuck in the ramp mesh. It's just weird, and it's been pretty much all winter, and if I put their food bowl near to it, they don't...

Nope--it's been like that all along. But they're not even going up to it and drinking out of it, which they also ALWAYS have done.

I have no answer on the coons, but I'm very interested in your dog desensitization program. We have a six month old puppy who completely ignored the ducks for the first several months we had her, but now is starting to think about chasing them. This is a "companion" dog. The LGD does a...

Last year, our duck's first year, they loved their tank. They swam and dunked in it all day long, deep into the winter (down to about 15F, in fact). We had a de-icer on it, and I had to put a board over the top to keep them from going in, but they still dunked their heads in it. But this...

My 8 Swedish hens did lay all winter their first year (except for two weeks when temps were below zero), but this year, they stopped the end of November and haven't laid an egg since. I'm hoping they start again sometime in the not terribly distant future.....

When it gets well below freezing, I shut the north window of the duck house, which is usually open for a cross-breeze. The front (south) side is completely open (covered with cattle panel and chicken wire), but they're out of the wind. Usually they have wood chips, but when it gets super-cold...

We eat our duck eggs, though no one has laid an egg for months now.....

I can't wait! I have 15 hens who are all about 1 1/2 years old, and they seem to be close to finished molting. Lots of food going into those non-laying hens, and we miss the eggs! We've been getting 0, 1, or 2 eggs/day all through January so far. Last winter they only stopped for a couple...

I do a deep bedding too--add a thin layer of shavings a couple times a week. In the super frigid cold, though, I put old hay in there, to give them something to nestle into, though they do end up flattening it eventually (and yes, pooping on it).

I gave a lot of duck eggs to folks, who were amazed by them. And then word got around, and I had several people seek me out to buy them. (And then the ducks stopped laying....)

Last summer I froze the excess eggs in batches of 8 or 12. Scrambled them all up. I think I froze about 150 or more, and we've been using them this winter as everyone seems to have stopped laying (it's possible that both the chickens and ducks, if they're laying at all, could be laying...

It's just a 100 gallon stock tank with a heater in it. During the summer, I drain it and refill it about twice a week, because it gets so filthy. It's above our vegetable garden, so with a 100 foot hose, I can syphon it into the garden. But it's been clear for a month now.

We've had a heater in the duck tank for the last two winters. Their first winter, they bathed down to about 10F (crazy, I know), but this winter they haven't gotten into it at ALL. No idea what's different this winter. They seem to be more sensitive to the cold, staying inside on truly frigid...

I noticed this too--thought they would have eaten more with the cold, but it seems they're hardly eating anything at all. Never thought that about pellets--but they usually gobble them up. I sortof figured they know what they need and they'll eat when they need to.