help!!!!

[Isaac 0]

she left the eggs about an hour ago, uncovered (she usually covers them) will she be back? she’s swimming in the pond with her mate and isn’t going to the eggs

Have you been messing with her? She may feel the area isn't a safe place to lay, one hour off her eggs seem's way too long to me, or she may still just be adding to her clutch.

 

[animal and duck lover]

she left the eggs about an hour ago, uncovered (she usually covers them) will she be back? she’s swimming in the pond with her mate and isn’t going to the eggs

Duck have been hatching eggs forever and know how long they can stay off of a nest. But if y’all are messing with her she may give up on them. My female ducks like their privacy when brooding .

we weren’t messing with her. i went to look out the window and she was gone and they were uncovered. last year she didn’t leave at all once she started sitting but this year whenever we go out to the pond to feed our ducks she flies over there for food (even though ducks don’t eat much while sitting on eggs?)

 

[animal and duck lover]

Have you been messing with her? She may feel the area isn't a safe place to lay, one hour off her eggs seem's way too long to me, or she may still just be adding to her clutch.

then why would she have laid on them all night? she had 8 when she started sitting on them but this morning she had 9? and we weren’t messing with her, she was gone before i went to see if she was there, she’s in the pond with her mate and my ducks

 

[Isaac 0]

Leave her alone, she knows what she is doing. No need to interfere with mother nature.

 

[Isaac 0]

then why would she have laid on them all night? she had 8 when she started sitting on them but this morning she had 9? and we weren’t messing with her, she was gone before i went to see if she was there, she’s in the pond with her mate and my ducks

Well, so you were near her nest. Constantly going over to her nest is going to make her not want to hatch. Wilds ducks need no help hatching their eggs.

 

[animal and duck lover]

Leave her alone, she knows what she is doing. No need to interfere with mother nature.

i’m not interfering, just wondering if she abandoned the eggs for some reason (we try to keep wildlife away from our yard since we have our own ducks but could a fox have scared her? last year it was trying to go after our ducklings) or if she just took a few hours to lay the egg

 

[animal and duck lover]

Well, so you were near her nest. Constantly going over to her nest is going to make her not want to hatch. Wilds ducks need no help hatching their eggs.

we check on her at the nest like once a day through the window so she doesn’t even see us. she flew down to the pond and is still there right now. if she was scared because of us she wouldn’t be in the pond that we are constantly at

 

[Miss Lydia]

If there was 9 eggs this morning and 8 yesterday she must still be laying

 

[casportpony]

But if y’all are messing with her she may give up on them.

I agree! LEAVE THE NEST ALONE!

 

[animal and duck lover]

If there was 9 eggs this morning and 8 yesterday she must still be laying

so is she gonna lay more? and do you know why she was on them for a few hours?