Mating & Eggs

[Jadecinadr96]

Eggs may or may not be coming soon. I generally expect eggs at 4-6 months of age.

Whether or not they have babies is mostly up to you. If you collect the eggs daily, even if fertilized, they won't develop ducklings inside. (They need to be incubated at the right temperature for the right number of days, either by a mama or in an incubator, to end up with ducklings) You can just keep collecting and eating the eggs if you don't want ducklings.

If you DO want ducklings, then we can certainly advise you on that when the time comes.

I would rather not have ducklings, so I plan to collect the eggs however if it happens - it happens. I am happy either way. But if we can avoid babies we will.

 

[sourland]

13 weeks.

She's young - they're just playing 'doctor' There's a ways to go before she starts laying.

As long as you take the eggs, there can be no ducklings.

 

[Miss Lydia]

I practice birth control here every day. If I didn’t my Muscovy would hatch every egg laid so I make sure to take up eggs every day.

 

[PirateGirl]

I would rather not have ducklings, so I plan to collect the eggs however if it happens - it happens. I am happy either way. But if we can avoid babies we will.

It takes 28 days of a duck sitting on her eggs 23 hours a day to hatch ducklings, so unless you skip collecting eggs for an ENTIRE MONTH, ducklings don't just happen