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Hello!
I need help. Where I live, laying ducks are not very popular. I didn't find the answer to my question.
I live in Poland. I have a small flock of ducks (Khaki Campbell and Welsh Harlequin). They are young ducks hatched in the spring. They have been laying eggs for 7 weeks. My problem is that my ducks are lose eggs in the afternoon. These eggs are unfinished and have very thin shells. Eggs laid at night have normal shells. The ducks are fed a good layer diet and oyster shells unlimited. They have a large run with grass, fresh bathing water every day, and clean straw in their house every day. They are given layer vitamins. What I can do to stop the egg loss? I only know one breeder of these ducks in my country. I bought eggs from him to hatch my ducks.
I also breed Indian runners duck, but they don't have this problem.
Some days I find 0 lost eggs, and other days I find 1-2, sometimes 5.
I have 10 ducks, and in the morning I find 5-8 normal eggs in their coop. I can't tell if the same ducks always lose eggs. I don't know if a duck that lose egg during the day lays a second, normal egg at night.

I don't know what I'm doing wrong in caring for my Campbell.

Thank you very much for any replies.

I apologize if anything is unclear; I'm using Google Translate.

Greetings to everyone!
 
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KaczuchyKluchy said:
Hello!
I need help. Where I live, laying ducks are not very popular. I didn't find the answer to my question.
I live in Poland. I have a small flock of ducks (Khaki Campbell and Welsh Harlequin). They are young ducks hatched in the spring. They have been laying eggs for 7 weeks. My problem is that my ducks are lose eggs in the afternoon. These eggs are unfinished and have very thin shells. Eggs laid at night have normal shells. The ducks are fed a good layer diet and oyster shells unlimited. They have a large run with grass, fresh bathing water every day, and clean straw in their house every day. They are given layer vitamins. What I can do to stop the egg loss? I only know one breeder of these ducks in my country. I bought eggs from him to hatch my ducks.
I also breed Indian runners duck, but they don't have this problem.
Some days I find 0 lost eggs, and other days I find 1-2, sometimes 5.
I have 10 ducks, and in the morning I find 5-8 normal eggs in their coop. I can't tell if the same ducks always lose eggs. I don't know if a duck that lose egg during the day lays a second, normal egg at night.

I don't know what I'm doing wrong in caring for my Campbell.

Thank you very much for any replies.

I apologize if anything is unclear; I'm using Google Translate.

Greetings to everyone!
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I doubt that any of your ducks are laying more than one egg per day. You could try keeping them in their coop a little bit longer in the morning before letting them out. So that all the eggs may be laid before the ducks start running out free. I know it is hard to figure out which one is laying the soft shells.
If you are able to figure it out, you can give her calcium gluconate, one ML per day for a week, using a syringe with no needle attached.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...dications-to-all-poultry-and-waterfowl.73335/
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Jenbirdee said:
I doubt that any of your ducks are laying more than one egg per day. You could try keeping them in their coop a little bit longer in the morning before letting them out. So that all the eggs may be laid before the ducks start running out free. I know it is hard to figure out which one is laying the soft shells.
If you are able to figure it out, you can give her calcium gluconate, one ML per day for a week, using a syringe with no needle attached.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...dications-to-all-poultry-and-waterfowl.73335/
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Thank you for your reply.
I think keeping them in their home longer will be stressful for them. And I think stress helps with losing eggs. There was one day when they were scared. I found the most lost eggs that day.
This makes me wonder whether calcium is the problem.
Maybe something else is causing the egg to leave the duck's body too quickly.
If I don't find out which ducks are losing eggs, can I give calcium glutathione to all the ducks??? is it safe? if so I can try it!
 
KaczuchyKluchy said:
Thank you for your reply.
I think keeping them in their home longer will be stressful for them. And I think stress helps with losing eggs. There was one day when they were scared. I found the most lost eggs that day.
This makes me wonder whether calcium is the problem.
Maybe something else is causing the egg to leave the duck's body too quickly.
If I don't find out which ducks are losing eggs, can I give calcium glutathione to all the ducks??? is it safe? if so I can try it!
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Yes! Better and easier on you to find the one or ones with the problems, but making the rounds with this wouldn't hurt them if they weren't the ones.
 

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