Ducks stopped laying eggs !

[MamaChic21]

I have 3 female ducks. They turned 1 year old this month. All winter long, they gave us sucha tasty eggs however, they stopped 2 months ago

. Does anyone know why ? Will they start laying eggs again ?

 

[misskate]

After two weeks with a lamp at night they started up again and are now laying consistently!

We think that after molting and the start of fall here there was not enough sunlight to get them going again on their own.

 

[Emmalion]

Hummmmm well a friend of mine had her ducks laying in the chickens nests. She had no clue her ducks were laying and was accidentally selling them with her chicken eggs.

 

[donaquijote]

Cold weather will stop ducks from laying. When the weather warms up again, your ducks will start laying regularly.

 

[MamaChic21]

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. I did see their eggs few times in the chicken's nest. At the begining, if they layed their eggs in the chicken nest box, I wouldn't know the difference either, but since I know how their eggs looks like, I can tell them apart. The second day at their new run and coop, I found 1 egg on the floor (run's floor). I was first happy maybe they're back laying again but it was too small to be theirs

 

[jdowie]

My ducks did the same thing. They layed solid from last Sept/Oct up until August of this year and stopped when they molted. I haven't seen an egg since. It's very frustrating. Also, I have 12 new females hatched in April that should have started laying around Sept/Oce and never even started. Have you had any luck yet? There weren't any acorns this year around here either. I wonder if it's all connected.

-Jon

@ mamachic21.....looks like you have a Buff duck (tan one), a Magpie (black and white one), and a cayuga (all black irridescent sp?).

 

[misskate]

Maybe put a fake egg in for them to sit on. We have one in their nesting box.

 

[donaquijote]

I have a female Pekin duck in San Francisco and she too has stopped laying eggs for the last 2-3 weeks. I'm wondering if anyone else has any ideas why this would happen?

donaquijote

 

[Halloweengirl13]

Is it very hot there? Sometimes that will affect laying. Ours tend to lay less in the summer when its hot and more in the spring ,fall, and even winter when its cooler, we are in Ga near the Florida border.

 

[jacksson515]

Just ran into your post. What finally happened with the non-laying ducks. My Runner ducks did the same thing this year, they laid eggs up through about August 2016 and I haven't seen an egg from them since that point in time. My Naked Neck chickens quit laying for a while, but they have started again with good production. The Runners ducks have been eating well, they can free range if they wish, but they hang out mostly around the chicken/duck pen. I kind of suspect that the problem is the two months of 100° days (mostly) and it is just starting to cool down and almost total lack of anything green for them to eat. This area of California is turning into a desert.