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Onlyducks said:
I'm sure I've seen this question before, but my four muscovy females all stopped laying eggs about 3 weeks ago. They were doing fine and then stopped. There were some disruptions—we were out of town and had someone come feed them and they were not allowed to free range during this time. However, I thought they's be back to normal in a couple of weeks. They don't seem to be laying eggs elsewhere. Even if they are left in the pen for a day or two, no eggs. I am feeding them laying pellets and mixing it with scratch grains. It's been cold enough I thought the scratch grains would help keep them warm. Now, they're free ranging again, but still no eggs out of any of the four. Any ideas?

The broody hen is still sitting on the eggs and seems quite content with her task. She's on her 19th day now. We see her get up and eat and drink, so we've just left her be. We made a special area for the hens to brood so the others wouldn't bother them and it seems to work well. She's quite calm brooding this year as compared to last, when the other ducks could get near her. I have no idea if she can actually hatch the eggs, but rather than fight her over eggs and try to stop her from doing her thing, we let her sit.
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I have 7 Muscovy ducks and got 1 egg yesterday so mine are in rest mode they seem to go strong on the laying then take breaks anywhere from 2-3 weeks. maybe that is what is going on with yours.
 
I am in Casper, Wyoming. The person who fed them was from Casper and she feed them the same food they are feed by me.
 

Twitch is back at it!! Even though she went broody in January... Here she sits. She's been like that 19 days I think mom said, on Pekin Eggs. So Probably the 30th the pekins should hatch.. I'd like to be there and see the look on her face.> WHUT?! you're 5 days EARLY!!! Myrtle is brooding on some of HER eggs, Hopefully we can get one more hatch from her, and just on the 26th the Blue Hen went broody. I'm not sure if those are fertile, as mom says that the drake would catch up to her and just chew on her wings? Maybe he did mate her at least a few times, we can hope. We couldn't find her, and there was the door in the duck shed tipped over, when I put my hand by the door to squat down and feed the birds, I heard a puffing hiss. Lift the door, sure enough here's a broody. BURIED in a HUGE nest of straw and fluff. I could only see her head!!
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That makes THREE broodies, and Gertrude has been getting out of the pen, so maybe she's got other plans for where she wants to lay..
 
I have one lonely drake, since his last hen went broody yesterday. Only two weeks left until my first hens eggs hatch! I estimate I have as many as 50 duck eggs being incubated right now.
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I guess I'm going to be overrun with ducks pretty soon.
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mymilliefleur said:
I have one lonely drake, since his last hen went broody yesterday. Only two weeks left until my first hens eggs hatch! I estimate I have as many as 50 duck eggs being incubated right now.
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I guess I'm going to be overrun with ducks pretty soon.
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oh, good luck!

I am supposed to have ducklings soon too... but I forgot to mark on the calendar when she started sitting tightly, so I really have no idea... blah
 

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