Call Duck laying eggs again

Just a Country Girl

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Mar 1, 2009
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I have a white Call that hatched a Duckling about three weeks ago. She started laying eggs again a few days ago. Do they usually hatch a second clutch?
 
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The dudkling is doing great. It hangs out with the dad when the mom is on the nest laying another egg. The Parents were last years babies so this was their first hatch. She must have 7 or 8 more eggs now but hasn't gone broody again yet. Do you think she will?
 
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Yes only one duckling hatched out of 12 fertile eggs on her first clutch. She started laying eggs about 3 weeks after the duckling hatched. She has 9 or 10 eggs in her nest now. I just came in from outside and the mother is on the nest with her duckling beside her. She has not gone broody yet
 
at 3 weeks the duckling only has about 1 more week of mom raising it, to you said the baby was her first clutch?, it sounds like she's ready to let the baby go, but no they usualy take several weeks to start laying once they put babies out on thier own.
 
The Mother Duck went Broody again. She's been on the nest for 4 or 5 days now. Her ducklings only a month old and spends part of the day on the nest with her and the other part hanging out with his/her father
 
I have a snow call duck that is sitting on her third clutch of eggs. If you take the babies away right away they will lay again and raise more babies. Norman
 

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