Losing hope in Ducks Starting to Lay

[Ratchnick]

If you start making the days longer 15 minuets a day i bet they will lay, just saying...

 

[Mwolfe38]

Derrick (my cayuga) stated laying the second week in October. She's really sporadic though. Only 6 eggs total since she started.

 

[Kholts]

If you start making the days longer 15 minuets a day i bet they will lay, just saying...

unfortunately I’m not Mother Nature and don’t have that switch. I also would rather not supply light for them.

 

[Miss Lydia]

I don’t add light either I just let them come into lay when their ready. Once eggs start coming you’ll have more eggs than you’ll know what to do with. And you’ll forget about how long you waited for that first egg!

 

[Ratchnick]

unfortunately I’m not Mother Nature and don’t have that switch. I also would rather not supply light for them.

This is all well and good, it just means you need to be patient. You start a forum thread about your ducks not laying you should not be a smarty pants when someone tells you how to fix your problem.

 

[Kholts]

This is all well and good, it just means you need to be patient. You start a forum thread about your ducks not laying you should not be a smarty pants when someone tells you how to fix your problem.

It was an update to my previously existing thread. That’s what people do...update. Thanks for your input though.

 

[duluthralphie]

I don’t add light either I just let them come into lay when their ready. Once eggs start coming you’ll have more eggs than you’ll know what to do with. And you’ll forget about how long you waited for that first egg!

Light does not matter to dux.....they are always in the dark!!

I happen to come across this photo of dux that found the perfect place to lay.....

My chickens have stopped laying but I get a turkey egg every couple days.....turkeys aren’t a whole lot smarter than dux....turkeys just smell a whole lot better.....


I will start putting lights on mine around thanksgiving...I should have fertile eggs a couple weeks after that.

 

[Kholts]

Update to finish thread (for future information seekers):

It is Feb 28/2020 today and I Finally got my first egg! No idea who laid it but I am now looking forward to seeing more in the coming weeks.

Ducks will eventually lay you may just have to wait until the following spring after they are born.

 

[Isaac 0]

Update to finish thread (for future information seekers):

It is Feb 28/2020 today and I Finally got my first egg! No idea who laid it but I am now looking forward to seeing more in the coming weeks.

Ducks will eventually lay you may just have to wait until the following spring after they are born.

Congratulations!

My East Indies haven't laid yet and they were born last spring.

 

[quackiemama]

Yay!!!