Encouraging egg laying

[BabyGotQuack]

My ducks still haven’t laid. Everyone at my church has been getting eggs from their ducks. Im assuming it’s because we moved them from the garage to outside on the 21st so it’s a new scenery. But is there any way I can encourage egg production. I have a light in their coop. It’s a flock of 7 girlies. Should I get a drake, or put some nesting boxes with decoy eggs? It’s their first year too they were hatched in the late summer/fall so maybe they don’t know what they’re supposed to be doing yet?

I would also give the decoy eggs a try. I don’t know if it will actually help, but I feel like it maybe would encourage them. But if nothing else when they’re ready to lay it will encourage them to lay in the nesting box. Ducks will lay eggs ANYWHERE. Every once in a while I have to put in decoy eggs to remind them where to lay.

 

[Yardmom]

They will lay when they are ready. This is not a process that can be speed up. Even though some ducks lay by 5 months not all do. Your girls are still young.