Do Ducks Use Nesting Boxes

[chickencoop789]

Do ducks use nesting boxes like hens do or do they just lay their eggs anywhere?

 

[HollyDuckFarmer]

Mine do not. They prefer corners full of deep straw.

 

[JulieNKC]

Mine prefer covered cat boxes for their nests. I prefer to encourage them to use nestboxes, the eggs stay much cleaner and are easier to find,. Ducks are good at hiding eggs...and covering them in mud and poop.

 

[Amiga]

Sometimes. Mine used wooden cheese boxes one year then got tired of them.

Now, they like little corners, so I put some 2'x2' thick plywood panels perpendicular to the pen walls and they make their nests with shavings. They do a very nice job, too.

 

[creaturelife]

one of my mallards use one of those blue tub that you get a walmart to lay her eggs in i cute a hole out for them but now she has moved her nest else where she is broody but we just got a warm day today and now it is going back to -2 tueday night the joy of winter i wish it was over so my girls could set