Champion layer?

[Eggscaping]

So here we are in our new house in Lakeside, and we see someone posting on Facebook and asking if anyone wants to buy duck eggs! I bake, and I've heard that duck eggs are really good for baking so I contact the lady and get 6 eggs. We ate 4 of them scrambled and 2 hard boiled...I wanted to get the taste before doing anything fancy...never had any before. I noted in the hard boiled that the yolks were very rich.
Today the lady asked if I wanted a half dozen more and I said SURE! She brought them over and when questioned, told me that she has a "large, gray duck, don't know what kind, her name is Karen." ...and that Karen lays an egg a day. Is that normal for ducks? I mean...it's winter, and it's a duck. I didn't think they laid that regularly?

 

[Ratchnick]

Yeah that's not unusual. Especially if providing supplemental light.

 

[Ratchnick]

A good laying duck will lay 300 or more eggs a year for reference.

 

[Slash3]

From my research, a good laying breed of duck can lay more than 300 a year, and are in many cases better layers than chickens. This is a good and bad thing as they are born with a set amount of eggs, so the more they lay, the shorter their laying time. Not bad for pet ducks, but useless after a while for anyone selling the eggs commercially.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Mine always lay through winter if hatched in spring my Runner anyway. But this year has been different. I had 3 females from late April and from June hatch 5an7 months old and they haven't started to lay. It doesn't matter to me though I like when they give their bodies a chance to rest and mature too. My Runners that hatched on late April 2016 laid for 18 months straight. That made me nervous for their health.