Two questions.

[Enigmius]

I’ve noticed that I’ve only received two eggs a day from my three runner girls in the last two days. When I let the ducks out, they all come out for a bit and then one lady slips away. I decided to sneak up and take a look at what was going on inside the coop. Why was she not having with the rest of the ducks? It was a strange behavior for a runner. Well, I looked in and she was sitting in her nest. I think she went broody.
Q#1: Do they completely stop laying eggs when broody?

This last weekend I was out at a jazz festival in which there were chicken coops present. The chickens inside were huge monsters. Omg, they were like chickens on steroids. I later found out that they were Jersey Giants.
Q#2: Can Jersey Giants and runner ducks get along, or will my drake try to breed with these mammoth-sized chickens?

 

[ldrchickens]

I would imagine thy are like chickens. Once they get enough eggs to sit on they will stop laying. I sat my broody hens on eggs and they laid 2 to 3 more and then stopped.

 

[Enigmius]

I would imagine thy are like chickens. Once they get enough eggs to sit on they will stop laying. I sat my broody hens on eggs and they laid 2 to 3 more and then stopped.

I pick out the eggs everyday except the fake eggs. So I guess the fake eggs turned her broody.
I really don’t mind that she’s broody as three eggs a day is really too much for me currently, but will this cause her problems later? Like will this increase chances of being egg bound?

 

[cheezenkwackers]

My Khaki did this last summer. Others on this sight advised me to “wait it out”. Within a week she tired of being broody and gave it up. The way I understand it, unlike chickens, Khakis and Runners were bred to not go broody so they don’t do much more than this. You could try removing the fake eggs to speed it along.

 

[Jpat]

I pick out the eggs everyday except the fake eggs. So I guess the fake eggs turned her broody.
I really don’t mind that she’s broody as three eggs a day is really too much for me currently, but will this cause her problems later? Like will this increase chances of being egg bound?

Not to be tooo off topic but is the egg sickness still going on?

 

[Enigmius]

Not to be tooo off topic but is the egg sickness still going on?

Oh, yeah.

 

[Enigmius]

My Khaki did this last summer. Others on this sight advised me to “wait it out”. Within a week she tired of being broody and gave it up. The way I understand it, unlike chickens, Khakis and Runners were bred to not go broody so they don’t do much more than this. You could try removing the fake eggs to speed it along.

Ok. So I’ll just wait it out. It sure is cute to see Morticia sitting in a nest and drawing more straw around her. She quacks quietly, a lot, but at least quietly. She is also fatter than the others and is standing more horizontally than the others. Is that normal broody behavior?

 

[auce99]

Curious... did the broodiness eventually stop? I'm going through the exact same thing with one of my Runners. She stopped laying, and became super broody. My other girl is still laying in the same nest, but I take the egg every morning. The broody girl still comes out, all excited, every morning, runs around for a bit and eats, then goes back to sit on the 'egg' (golf ball).

 

[Miss Lydia]

She’s broody!

 

[Enigmius]

Yeah, the broodiness eventually stops.
After you take the eggs, are you destroying the nest too? That seems to help.