we got our first eggs then it stopped

[farlee flock]

we have 5 hens and 2 ducks a male and a female and our male duck is chasing our hens and pinning them down so we have cooped up the hens and they stopped laying....... ideas please help us Thank you

 

[sourland]

The chickens are on strike because of the change in their environment - they hate change. Separating them from the drake was essential. He was trying to breed them, and drakes are different anatomically from roosters and he could seriously injure them. Could you pen the ducks in another pen and allow the hens to return to their pen?

 

[farlee flock]

yes we have the chickens in a separate pen now and the ducks cant get to them, so do you think they will start to lay again?

 

[farlee flock]

oh and we found a cream colored egg by the ducks pool do you think it would be a duck egg and should i leave it there for her to sit on?

 

[jeanetteiacovon]

oh and we found a cream colored egg by the ducks pool do you think it would be a duck egg and should i leave it there for her to sit on?

is it a duck egg or chicken, does the pool have water in it?

 

[farlee flock]

yes the pool has water, but all the eggs we get in the coop are brown and this one was white or cream colored

 

[jeanetteiacovon]

yes the pool has water, but all the eggs we get in the coop are brown and this one was white or cream colored

$sorry I thought you wrote the egg was in the pool...anyway duck and chicken eggs are diff. shape. What shape is the egg? If you want to let her hatch it, put the egg you just found some place safe out of drafts and airconditioning, when you find out who it is slip the egg under her.

 

[jeanetteiacovon]

Is everyone laying or do you have a questionable rooster