Nonlaying ducks

[Flockincrazy]

Now I know my pekins are not supposed to be laying yet but my Rouens haven't started yet and they are 25wks old should I not expect any from anyone till spring im at a loss with the ducks never had any that didn’t start laying on time

 

[Callender Girl]

My May-born runner ducks laid for about a week in October, then quit -- presumably for the winter, since the older girls had already stopped for their winter break weeks earlier.

 

[BigLar368]

Our Welsh Harlequins are in their 24th week and show no signs of laying and we live in a very mild climate. It has yet to reach the 30's at night. I am beginning to wonder if they ever will lay. We have 15 chickens the same age and only two of them are laying.

 

[Callender Girl]

I think climate has less to do with laying than the length of daylight; as days get shorter, without supplemental light, few of my girls produce anything. I adjust my diet accordingly as my girls take their winter "vacation." The exception is my Sapphire Gem sisters who slow down but continue to lay all through the year.

 

[corriemartin]

My May hatched ducks DID start laying, about a month and a half ago, and they're still laying. The eight of them have gone from two or three eggs/day to five or six eggs per day. I'm actually pretty amazed....

 

[Flockincrazy]

My May hatched ducks DID start laying, about a month and a half ago, and they're still laying. The eight of them have gone from two or three eggs/day to five or six eggs per day. I'm actually pretty amazed....

I wish mine would start already im so impatient

 

[Trisseh]

My appleyard waited to start laying until this spring, she was a may hatched duckling last year. Can’t complain though, she laid almost every day through the entire summer, only stopped because she went broody. The Swedish that I had started laying at the end of September last year, laid for a few weeks, then quit, and started back up in early March.
I wouldn’t necessarily worry too much about it, nor expect eggs til spring; if they do start laying for a bit now, great! But some seem to keep to the wilder timeline and wait til the following spring. Not sure what earlier hatched ducklings would do, but...