How can I get more eggs

[BDutch]

Egg production is directly regulated by the amount of daylight they get. You can't feed them anything to increase production no matter what anyone may say

Not just daylight is important. The temperature has lots of influence too. And also (little) stress, health, breed..
The amount of space and the ducks can be a stress factor.

Only corn is not okay.

Separate the ducks , give chiken feed and wait for spring.

 

[SwampPrincessChick]

The ducks and chicken are friends they play Together and both the ducks are females

Do you realize that ducks and chickens cannot comprehend what playing is, and they don't do it as a result? Birds are too survival-oriented to waste time playing when they can be finding food and water. If you see birds fighting, they are never playing, they are actually being aggressive. So don't mistake fighting as being playful when they are hurting each other.

They are just getting ground up corn from last years harvest

Corn is not good for them, switch to chicken feed.

 

[Santamanhank]

Do you realize that ducks and chickens cannot comprehend what playing is, and they don't do it as a result? Birds are too survival-oriented to waste time playing when they can be finding food and water. If you see birds fighting, they are never playing, they are actually being aggressive. So don't mistake fighting as being playful when they are hurting each other.


Corn is not good for them, switch to chicken feed.

What is wrong with corn?

 

[LaFleche]

They are just getting ground up corn from last years harvest

No wonder they wont lay eggs. Corn only diet leads to severe nutrient deficiencies resulting even in health issues.

 

[NatJ]

What is wrong with corn?

Just corn is not healthy for a person.
Just corn is not healthy for a chicken either.

Corn and other things can be healthy for a person or a chicken, if the other things are chosen correctly.

For chickens, as a basic starting point, corn does not have enough protein, and is short of several important vitamins and minerals.

If you buy a bag of chicken feed, it will probably include corn as one ingredient, but it has other ingredients that provide the things the corn does not have. This is usually the easiest way to have chickens be healthy and lay eggs: feed them a purchased chicken feed. I would recommend one labeled "chick starter" or "flock raiser" or "all flock." With any of those, provide a separate dish of oyster shell as a calcium source.

Separate the ducks, give chicken feed and wait for spring.

That is what I would recommend, too.


(If there is some reason you can't get chicken feed, I would suggest you look for a good source of meat to give the chickens. That will provide many of the things that corn lacks. For the number of chickens you have, that would take a lot of meat: maybe see if any deer-hunters want to clean out their freezers? But buying chicken feed is usually more cost-effective than buying other things to put with the corn you have.)

 

[Santamanhank]

Do you realize that ducks and chickens cannot comprehend what playing is, and they don't do it as a result? Birds are too survival-oriented to waste time playing when they can be finding food and water. If you see birds fighting, they are never playing, they are actually being aggressive. So don't mistake fighting as being playful when they are hurting each other.


Corn is not good for them, switch to chicken feed.

They do not fight they get along fine they sleep together and never once fought

 

[SwampPrincessChick]

They do not fight they get along fine they sleep together and never once fought

Then what makes you think they are playing? Fighting would be the only thing that vaguely looks like playing.

 

[Santamanhank]

Then what makes you think they are playing? Fighting would be the only thing that vaguely looks like playing.

I got them toys and they swing together

 

[SwampPrincessChick]

I got them toys and they swing together

I thought you meant they were directly playing with each other like a dog would do, sorry for the misunderstanding.

 

[ILoveDaffy]

What is wrong with corn?

Nothing is wrong with corn, IF it is in something else, or as an occasional treat in small amounts. Corn does not have really enough nutritional value on it's own. If fed on it's own, it can cause problems. Your hens need calcium as well as a regular layer or all flock feed in order to lay more, as well as light and a low stress environment. As a calcium supplement, I use oyster shell, which you can get quite a bit off for little money. Too much calcium also can harm rooster's kidneys, so it should be fed separately from feed, free choice. And, yes, though you can have ducks and chickens together, it is better to have them separate if at all possible because they have different needs.