so whos getting excited for duck laying season? :D

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OK All RELAX...... a watch duck will never lay an egg ( or they will hide it so well u will only find it when it stinks ) From my experence The ducks in the cold ( northern states ) wait to get into the laying groove till late feb early march and then most of the time the eggs freeze long before us (the eager human) can get to them!!!!! Now last yr my ducks had me in tizzys the lil evil buggers didn't give me eggs until april and were setting all the way into August!!!!!!! NOW some of you lucky southern types Im sure are beginning to get eggs already due to a buddy of mine sent me a bunch of call eggs to test for her. This yr.. I will be hatching saxony..... Calls...... Khacki Campbells (some crested) ....
Runners ( show quality in grey) And will be getting a HOldenread order of Saxony....Cambells and Dutch hookbills im march . I will have a overload of fuzzy butts running around this yr " I love breeding season" Allie
 
I am a newbie. Of course I am impatient! (and I am all out of eggs and don't like the idea of going out and buying more! LOL)

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One thing I have noticed is two of the females doing a little dance thing that has me wondering what they are up to...

They kind of scrunch up their necks and run forward a bit with their beaks about an inch off the ground. Is this a "hey handsome!" move?
I have seen the buff duck and the dark khaki both do it. Jack, our drake, seems indifferent at this point.
 
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Okay..I am a new duckie mother as of June. I rescued 2 black and teal call ducks. They were probably hatched somewhere around the 1st of June. Today was the first day Doodle layed an egg. We were estatic. Is she right on schedule? Do we have to seperate her from her brother Quack now that she is laying?
 
We plan on the eggs being used for cooking and eating. I'd love to have little ones, but don't have the room right now and didn't think it would be right with two ducks from the same clutch anyway.
 
Then let them be! It seems weird for brother/sister to mate, but as long as you take them away daily and refrigerate them until eating, just like any eating egg, it doesn't matter! Also 1 generation of inbreeding usually doesn't hurt the ducklings, so if you really wanted to have ducklings that's ok too. Just be careful with their genetics in the future...don't make 10,000,000 ducklings out of 2!
 

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