My ducks have mysteriously stopped laying

[iloveduckies]

I have four beautiful swedish black females and two males. They used to lay three eggs a night and now nothing. Is this normal?:/

 

[Quackalackin]

Are they possibly hiding a nest somewhere? Some of my hens have been going broody and now hide their eggs in attempts of keeping me from finding them

 

[iloveduckies]

They could be but I'm not sure

 

[Amiga]

Could you remind us how old they are, what they are eating, if there have been any changes in their world, etc? And I agree hiding may be a possibility. I thought Alba had quit, and found a secret nest with seven eggs in it.

 

[iloveduckies]

All of the females are one and a half years old

 

[Amiga]

I would look around for a secret nest.

Has their food changed? Their environment?

 

[iloveduckies]

This morning I found a new egg under the chicken nesting boxes ... So it's a good thing y'all told me to look around.

 

[Amiga]

Ah HA!!!

 

[Duck Drover]

A friend of mine was concerned that her ducks were not laying but I told her they were probably hiding their eggs because ducks are so much smarter than chickens. Sure enough, she lifted a board in her chicken coop and found 60 (yes, sixty) eggs under the board!

 

[iloveduckies]

Wow