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    WHY do fat ducks stop laying?

    Thanks! I'll get more data. I dislike lowering their feed with winter coming.
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    WHY do fat ducks stop laying?

    Is there a chart someplace with weights per breed? I have 2 runners, 1 rouen, 1 pekin, 1 Swedish, 1 Buff Orpington. So maybe it's getting time to eat them and get new reliable layers? If their butt is literally dragging on the ground, that's obese I would think.
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    WHY do fat ducks stop laying?

    Yes, they have the full run of the yard. Age 4.5 years. I haven't literally weighed them, just did the keel test, and visually, they're fat. They get about 2 cups of chicken layer feed split between 6 of them from an automatic feeder, twice a day (so, appx. 4 cups total daily). Since it's...
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    WHY do fat ducks stop laying?

    I've raised ducks for 4 years, 6 in my flock, but 2024 has been the worst ever for eggs, like 50% less. I know all the usual given reasons for decline of course. Age, daylight, molting, too fat, etc, etc. I've got them on a diet which is being loudly protested. I'm focused on their...
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    Comment by 'Portlandistan' in article 'Chickens & Winter Egg Laying and Lighting'

    Or, just gets ducks instead.
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    Calmest Drake Breed?

    Are the drakes of certain breeds a bit calmer - or at least more defined about breeding season - than others? I see people all through here talking about how Runners seem to have no mating season, it's just non-stop. How about Pekins, Rouens, Appleyards?
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    New Females & Excessive Rape

    Thanks, that helps. Yeah, it's a bummer because I created a fully automatic system in their fenced compound. The water trough self cleans itself several times a day, there are sprayers that clean off their favorite places to stand, and their "pool" (an IBC tote) automatically drains into the...
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    New Females & Excessive Rape

    Ah - I see what you mean. Since my goal is meat production, but I don't have time to deal with brooders & chicks for awhile, does this make sense as a strategy? - eat the male runner now, and then since drakes are so easy to come by for like $5 (at least here in Portland) get a juvenile...
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    New Females & Excessive Rape

    Really?!? I thought that meant they were developing. And sometimes there will be larger blobs of... bloody matter, I guess you'd call it. Like a large bloody booger. I always assumed that was a chick starting to grow. But now I've found some forum posts about that.... very interesting...
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    New Females & Excessive Rape

    But he isn't at all with his sister. I think they just do it at night, quietly. As I said - she has fertile eggs. So I need to keep him locked up alone until Autumn?
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    New Females & Excessive Rape

    Hi - I've been searching the forum and don't quite find the right answer to this... I've only had ducks for 3 months now, started with a pair of adult Indian Runners, male & female, given to me by a friend. They're siblings and a suppose a bonded pair. While I've only seen him mounting her...
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