duck laying

  1. Pamuk

    Duck laying issues! Vet is no help!

    Hello all! My duck is 7 months old and started laying on july 20. She was egg bound with her first egg and after that was laying normally. After her tenth egg, she started experiencing some worrying symptoms such as shaking, excessive panting, wings twitching (a bit spread out as well), raspy...
    • Pamuk
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    • duck duck advice duck laying eggs & duck help appreciated help asap laying issues vet advice
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    • Forum: Ducks
  2. MartinFamilyHomestead

    Runner eggs

    We have 2 blue runners and a fawn and white runner in our flock. Total of 12 hens. We are currently getting about 5 eggs a day and are certain who 2 of the eggs belong to but we just started getting a much smaller egg. Maybe size of chicken egg and it almost has a green tint to it. We tried to...
  3. MartinFamilyHomestead

    When will ducks lay??

    Looking for everyone’s experience on when their hens start laying. I know it’s typically 5-6 months (per google) but ducks can be so temperamental and vary flock to flock so just looking for personal experiences on when your young hens first started laying. Also according to weather/time of...
  4. MartinFamilyHomestead

    Duck Laying Northern NY

    I know hens begin the lay around 5-6 months old. I have a few girls getting close to this age but am in Northern NY and is already getting chilly out. I know ducks can be temperamental with laying. I know of people having ducks lay through winter and how flocks stop laying altogether during...
  5. CherryCord

    The need to knows on duck laying?

    So my Pekin duck Sweetpea just layed her very first egg this morning. She is about 7 months old. I keep all my ducks in a big pen. I hadn't noticed her looking for a place to next until about a week ago. Yesterday I noticed she spent a lot of time in the corner if the pen and assumed she wanted...
  6. MartinFamilyHomestead

    Hens stopped laying

    I have two white American pekin hens. They are a few years old that I got from a neighbor and added them to our folk. They laid everyday with the previous owner then we got them and they haven’t laid since. It’s been a few months. I read that stress can cause them to stop but I would have...
  7. Beccazon

    Clutch of duck eggs...now what

    My KC or my Rouen girl has been laying now for about a month. I assume the KC as she is older by a week or so but that's my only reason. After the first 2 weeks or so of daily, she slowed...every other day maybe then twice a week. Only one this week. They got all new bedding and coop cleaned a...
  8. awyman

    Beginner Duck Mom Question.

    I have a couple questions as far as duck egg laying goes. The other day I found my first 3 duck eggs in a random spot in my duck enclosure. I collected them, and floated them because I wasn’t sure how long they had been there. They were perfectly fine. So I go back to the same spot the next...
    • awyman
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    • duck egg duck egg problems duck laying eggs laying
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Ducks
  9. kflanagin

    Muscovy ducks aren’t laying, ideas?

    Hi guys, I have 5 Muscovy ducks. Four of them hatched on st Patrick’s day this year 2 boys and 2 girls and they have not started laying. They’re fully mature and have keen “mating” for more than a month but I haven’t seen eggs ANYWHERE! They have their coop and a large run attached with a dog...
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    • duck behavior duck laying ducks eggs muscovy muscovy behavior muscovy laying problems
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Ducks
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