Muscovy's... I am going to scream!

[harleyjo]

So I am trying to get my muscovies to start laying eggs. These are last years hatch. So I have more or less tried to kick them out of the chicken coop. They were staying out most of the time anyway. I have a box set up with bedding and straw, cut a hole in it and set a food pan in there. I have a pan of water next to the opening.

They have found the water and the food and I have even seen them inside it. Plenty of room and private. So now my chickens have found the box too and I just went in and found a brown egg in a nest the chickens have made in it.

Muscovy lay white eggs right? How in the world am I going to get these ducks to nest and lay and have ducklings for me?

 

[pdsavage]

Mine have finaly started laying,go find all the spots they could be laying in.
Alot of times they lay where they want to.I found my first 2 in the old shop,then after that they started laying in where my male LGD sleeps and eats,guess they feel safer with him around....
Muscovy eggs are huge next to chicken eggs.

 

[sevenchickens]

They could be laying anywhere. It took mine a few tries to settle on a spot. She is currently setting on a clutch of 14 in the nesting box of the bantam chickens coop. Go figure!?

 

[D'Angelo N Va.]

Ha Ha..you are going to scream. I AM SCREAMING...Mine are still not laying. I took mine out of the hen house about 2 weeks ago and they have total rein of the yard, pond, little crevices, large rose bushes( about 300) of them and still no eggs.... Why are they torturing me??

 

[harleyjo]

I am glad I am not alone in this frustration. Today I saw the drake after one of the hens. She keeps flying or running away from him. I am sure it is just a matter of time. I have 3 hens and 1 drake.