Are wood ducks laying yet?

[onthespot]

a friend of mine is visiting in Louisiana and was asking me if I knew where to get wood duck eggs. I told him I didn't know if they were laying right now, I would ask. So, are they? any die hards have theirs under lights, if they are out of season right now?

 

[chickenlittle32]

My wood ducks aren't laying yet...I don't think they will start laying until the end of the month or even next month....

 

[1lpoock]

My wood ducks, mandarins, and ringed teals aren't laying yet...I don't think they'll start till March...

 

[exoticduckluvr]

mine don't start laying until early to mid March. I am in the deep south/Mississippi Gulf Coast

 

[onthespot]

EDL, thanks for your answer, and of course...

I am honored that your first post was in my thread! Welcome from Riverside, CA.

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Hi! No eggs from my WoodDucks, but they are mating and she is going in the nestbox (possibly just to get away from her pesky mate).

Lisa

 

[MTtroutwithwings]

Wow! Do you all sell wood duck eggs? I had no idea! I'm currently raising two wood ducks. 1lpoock, what is it like raising Mandarins compared to Woodies?

 

[1lpoock]

Mandarins and wood ducks are pretty much the same as far as needs go. They aare both very fun to watch and I couldn't pick a favorite! Also, I dont sell eggs because they arent very easy to hatch in an incubator.....

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=289340 there is a link to some pictures i just took today!

 

[MTtroutwithwings]

Thanks for the info... I was just curious...I see lots of websites selling juvenile pairs of ducks and other exotic birds but not eggs. I live around a 20 acre marsh behind me with wood ducks and many other water & land fowl but I've not seen any Mandarins. The pair of males I have now (avatar pic) came from eggs dropped from a nest in the cavity of my tree which sits on the edge of the marsh. I wasn't sure if they were OK or where they were in they're development. I put them in bator I had set up for guinea eggs and they hatched a week later. They're about 7 mos. old now. Checked your link, you've got some beauties!

 

[giffy]

Mandarins are not a native bird, those seen would probably be pen raised birds that escaped.

giffy
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