What could have taken ALL the eggs?

[duckluck]

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One other thought: maybe the duck moved them herself? I have had one of my Calls move eggs and hide them, but only one or two at a time...several of my Calls like to move the golf balls in the nests around too. One was just ejected from a nest...they must have figured out it isn't going to hatch!

 

[LALADY1101]

Here's what hubby built for the girls as laying boxes. They're on our island where they would be much safer. Silly girls don't wanna use them!

 

[zazouse]

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Very nice nest boxes, but if you want the ducks to use them you need to cover them up with brush of some type, they like to hide their nest, i use pine tree limbs and hay.

 

[zazouse]

A possum will carry them off, a coon will eat them right there, a dog will carry some off eat some there and leave the shells, but if you do not find any shells at all i would go with the 2 legged critter.

 

[Dances with Ducks]

I had a coon get into the duck house and steal two eggs from a broody hen. I heard the commotion in the middle of the night and got outside in time to see the young raccoon trying to find its way out of the pen. I could faintly make out the eggs in its hands, and verified it in the morning when two were missing. Like someone said it was about a week before hatch, one of those eggs was freshly laid and the other was near to hatch. Guess coons like balut!
Holderread suggest putting up electronet fencing around a broody hen.

 

[Wifezilla]

Ahhhh...got it! Your ducks are just stubborn. In other words, your ducks are normal

 

[BeckyBird]

I had a call duck who was incubating eggs last year. One day, right before they were due to hatch, I found a stinkin snake in the pen. Yes, they can fit through 1" chicken wire (even though the pen is reinforced with tough wire fence to deter large predators.) So while the snake wouldn't kill my ducks, it had a feast on my precious fully developed baby eggs.
It ate all the eggs, not one left! But it was so fat that it could not get out of the wire again. I killed the snake, and unfortunately all of the eggs were dead by then. When he died, some of the eggs came back out of his body, through the mouth (gross!) Yes--I would have tried to save them out of the snake, but it was just too late.

Sooo, any predator could have gotten your duck eggs. It stinks, even when you think you've gotten your birds safe and sound. That is why my new duck pen, and every other small bird pen, will be built using 1/2" wire.

 

[BeckyBird]

LALADY--those are some beautiful duck houses!! I would live in there if I were a duck lol!!