HELP! My female duck is burying her eggs?!Why?

[Wifezilla]

She isn't getting enough calcium.

Give her a container of oyster shells or ground up egg shells to snack on.

 

[sparkles2307]

ok will try that. I wish Rouen laid more than a piddly few eggs per year... we might get babies if she did...

 

[Wifezilla]

I know. I bought a Rouen and didn't know their egg laying abilities were so poor. I think it's a girl too. (It tried to quack today...LOL...it sounded so pathetic). The Rouen was bought as a brooder mate for my Khaki Campbell I hatched (test hatch egg in a homemade bator). Looks like he is a boy (getting raspy sounding, legs are looking yellowish).

The are totally BFF now. If I sold her I think he would totally freak out. I know she would.

 

[goosedragon]

Pekin are meat ducks and were bred to get big, so are Rouen. Other breeds are bred for eggs, you get eggs but the ducks don't go broody (because this would interfer with their egg production) What you want is to either get an incubator and hatch them for the egg producers. Or find a breed of duck that are just bred to look pretty.~gd

 

[SundownWaterfowl]

Thats what my call duck girls do. They gently pack the straw around the eggs to hide them.

 

[Laskaland]

Quote:
I took half the eggs and shoved them on my Toulousse's pile of eggs she's built up. The other half I will stick in the incubator the day she starts to sit, and see who does better!!!

My money is on the goose, but I thought it would be a cool experiment

 

[Laskaland]

Why do my Roeuns lay so well, I wonder?? I only have two girls, but they are laying everyday (especially now that I uncovered the 11 that were stashed). I thought they were supposed to lay pretty well? Seasonally anyway?

 

[purr]

I have 2 females they are half rouen half pekin they lay everyday I just got them a male rouen. I'm hoping for ducklings so far they are giving him the cold shoulder, but its only been 4 days.

 

[DiVon80]

Its a duck thing my blue swedish are doing the same thing. She will be fine-mother knows best.

 

[Wifezilla]

Rouen are supposed to lay around 100 eggs a season.
Buff ducks, just over 200 a season.
Khakis and runners lay all the darn time.

I am getting very good eggs production out of my runner and my buff. My khaki was a laying machine. I miss her

One English website said some strains of rouens CAN be good layers, but many strains have been bred for a certain look or size and the egg laying abilities were lost. Maybe you have a couple of good throwbacks