How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

[3xhhheather]

I thought my girl was laying irregularly, but went in today and found 5 very buried eggs. So that does make it 1x a day

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Y’all are missing out on the fun today. The sleet came in earlier than expected and we may snow in a little while.

Here in WV we are high and dry! - No precipitation is forecasted until next weekend.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Ten huge eggs, carefully hidden all over the duck house. I had to dig them out one by one and am afraid i may missed some more…

 

[Texag87]

I think we hit 6 inches of snow when it was all done. The young and even the old were a bit confused. We are lucky if we get that much snow in a decade. Quackers refused to come out of the pen when we wanted to free range. At dark both flocks were in their coops. They were done for the day. Good news is 4 eggs from the young and two from the old flock.

 

[MamaLynn23]

Ohyeah! She never stops talking.

Honestly her belly has been hanging and tonight and i felt her stomach area and could feel an egg Ducklings soon!

I had no idea you could do that! Or that their bellies can indicate eggs! I am so glad I joined here! Learning a lot already. I have noticed that some of my duck hens “cluck” on their way to the coop and later see them on the nest so I figured that was a good indication they were about to lay.

 

[MamaLynn23]

We have about 18 chicken hens, all of young laying age. We usually get around 11-12 eggs a day from them. Have 4 duck hens, all young and of laying age. From them I usually get 1-3 eggs a day. It is currently the coldest it has been since November when the “cold” weather sets in here; tonight it is about 39, in the mid 40s during the day.

We live in South Texas: San Patricio county

 

[Magnolia Ducks]

I'm south Texas too but have snow. snow omg how can that be??

 

[Daphne_loves_mealworms]

Three of my ducks are 25 weeks. I also have a duck and drake a few weeks younger (impulse buy) than that as well. They, of course have not yet begun to lay. It's January, and being Minnesota, it's cold and dark and will be, for seems like an eternity.

I keep reading all your posts, which seem to be from considerably warmer areas in the country (right now at least) and keep getting more and more impatient with my lovable freeloading crew of mess-makers

At what point have any of you midwestern duck owners started having eggs each year?

I’m in Vermont, but it’s similarly cold and dark and shall be for the foreseeable future. My three free-loaders usually start up the fist week of April!

Edited to add: I have a coworker with Pekins who brought in eggs last week. She insists that she doesn’t use artificial light too.I think they are only 1 and a half years old or so though.

 

[Majorbleepbleep]

I’m in Vermont, but it’s similarly cold and dark and shall be for the foreseeable future. My three free-loaders usually start up the fist week of April!

Edited to add: I have a coworker with Pekins who brought in eggs last week. She insists that she doesn’t use artificial light too.I think they are only 1 and a half years old or so though.

No supplemental lights and popping out eggs in Vermont?! I wonder if she has a street light or a yard light that shines thru the coop window and doesn't realize it?

 

[FunQuail]

6 eggs