Suddenly "Evil"

[katharinad]

You may be able to break up her broodiness. First you must remove her nest, and second you must keep her with a bright light all night. No dark areas or corners to hide in. This will stop her from wanting to sit on eggs. Her broodiness may stop after 3-6 days.
Good luck

 

[JJchiknshak]

Why do you pitch her eggs????

If you don't want to eat them, someone might! Give them away on craig's list or something.

And yes, sounds broody.

 

[suburbanduckmom]

Mine is in the same broody mood. Next week we will take away her nest box and her wooden eggs. I give her a few weeks to let her get it out of her system and recoup from laying. Also, I pick her up (gloves & long sleeves) and put her in a cool pond.

 

[FenDruadin]

Why not give her some fertile eggs and let her be a mom? I know, now *I'm* evil!

I can think of dozens of reasons *not* to do that, but it would be fun, wouldn't it?

Good luck with her--sounds like normal, good-mama broodiness to me.

 

[Quackmire]

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Thats good to hear..... (that it's normal, not that it's hard on them). I assumed this was the case but am a worrier by nature and wanted to be sure.

I would rather her continue with these than to replace them, and I definitely don't want to put her on wire floor, so I guess I'll leave them with her.

You may be able to break up her broodiness. First you must remove her nest, and second you must keep her with a bright light all night. No dark areas or corners to hide in. This will stop her from wanting to sit on eggs. Her broodiness may stop after 3-6 days.
Good luck

I don't think we can manage that. Her nighttime bed IS a dark corner.

She loves it in her bed and paces and peeps if she doesn't go in there at night (I know from her experience with surgery recovery....it was a tough time lol)

Why do you pitch her eggs????

If you don't want to eat them, someone might! Give them away on craig's list or something.

And yes, sounds broody.

I pitch them because she recently suffered lead poisoning and had a long term round of antibiotic following her surgery, so I am pitching the eggs for a few months to be sure we (and nobody else) eat tainted eggs.

Mine is in the same broody mood. Next week we will take away her nest box and her wooden eggs. I give her a few weeks to let her get it out of her system and recoup from laying. Also, I pick her up (gloves & long sleeves) and put her in a cool pond.

Can I ask what the cool pond does? I haven't taken her out to swim because she shows no interest in it since her attitude change.

I can pick her up, I can handle her, I can move her eggs for her, she is still very sweet with me. It's the rest of the family and our other pets that she is rotten to. So I guess that's a small blessing.

 

[Quackmire]

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If I could convince my husband that we needed more houseducks, I might consider that!

I can think of a bunch of reasons not to do that also, but yes, it DOES sound like fun.