Perfect topic for me today! We have been under a State of Emergency due to the "Polar Vortex". Windchill's down to -30 degrees this past week! I love my ducks, but getting to them in several feet of snow, down the hill, to shovel out their door, is a bit much! I "USED" to give them lettuce daily, but not this week. I did make sure they still had food and drinking water as that was visible through the fencing. I could see that they've been laying, but because it has not been at usual times (like in warmer months), they'd end up being cracked frozen, before I got to them. I don't understand why they are laying in the "open-fenced-in run" versus the "enclosed coop?" THAT part is not fully covered with boards (just fenced ceiling for half of it) so snow gets INTO the run. Makes no sense to me why'd they want to lay in the straw near THERE. ANYHOOOOOW, to make this long story a little shorter, I dug them out of their igloo today(haha) and gathered a weeks worth of eggs anticipating the need to "chuck them all out". "WELL" not ONE was cracked even after candling! They are resting now, and for "giggles and grins" am going to try incubating them in a day or 2. Something tells me "screw the science"
, and "have hope"
!!! ---p.s. oldest egg is likely 5 days old, and the ducks do not sit on their nests other than to lay.
