Rouen Duck thread

[alwayssmiling44]

I may be duck dumb....lol but if i have male and female will i get a duck egg? Do i have to feed something special?
How soon will they mate? Or are they just good pets???

 

[DuckyDonna]

If you have a female you will get an egg regardless of if you have a male. If you have a male then the egg could be fertile. That's the only difference. Females don't need males to lay eggs. They will anyway.

Once they start laying be sure to put out some oyster shell becuase she will need the extra calcium.

 

[alwayssmiling44]

If you have a female you will get an egg regardless of if you have a male. If you have a male then the egg could be fertile. That's the only difference. Females don't need males to lay eggs. They will anyway.

Once they start laying be sure to put out some oyster shell becuase she will need the extra calcium.

How

 

[alwayssmiling44]

How old are they when eggs start???

 

[DuckyDonna]

How

I take a plastic coke bottle or whatever, cut it in 1/2 and drill holes in the bottom for drainage and then drill a couple more hole near the top and use those holes to wire it right to their fence. They instinciivley know when they need it and will eat from the container. The males don't usually mess with it but I've seen my boy eat from it. Not much though. I think he was just copying what the girls were doing.

I don't have Roens, I've got runners so I don't know how old they will be before the lay. I think my runners started with they were about 6 months old.

 

[Isaac 0]

How old are they when eggs start???

20 weeks on average.Looks like you have a male and female.

 

[Raenh]

I may be duck dumb....lol but if i have male and female will i get a duck egg? Do i have to feed something special?
How soon will they mate? Or are they just good pets???

You're not a dumb dumb - a lot of ppl make the misconception that hens need a male in order to lay an egg.
Think about your own body, you lay an egg once a month regardless if you have a male counterpart or not... the male just helps turn it into a baby - same with ducks/chickens only they lay one daily for awhile.

 

[Taj_MaChicken]

Ooh I'm new to ducks, and one is a roeun.

 

[alwayssmiling44]

20 weeks on average.Looks like you have a male and female.

 

[alwayssmiling44]

I hope so. Still guessing on the light face one. The other is showing green on head!!!