What do call duck eggs look like

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Thank you! It was my husbands dream to have acreage and a pond. It's stocked with bass, bream and crappie (white perch) and of course the ducks (and the chickens that stay in my yard). I was VERY much a city girl and used to just say OK when he would talk about it. Now, you couldn't pay me to live in the city.......in fact, I want MORE land! I'll post a better pic of the pond now that I've figured out how to do it.


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I agree with you, I have 36 acres now, and I want a pond stocked with fish so bad. I grew up in an area where 2 acres cost you the equivalent of about 30 acres in the country, but it was right on the water with a dry dock, a wet dock, and a boat ramp. Was right at the tip of Florida at the water with a nice coral reef though.
 
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Thank you! It was my husbands dream to have acreage and a pond. It's stocked with bass, bream and crappie (white perch) and of course the ducks (and the chickens that stay in my yard). I was VERY much a city girl and used to just say OK when he would talk about it. Now, you couldn't pay me to live in the city.......in fact, I want MORE land! I'll post a better pic of the pond now that I've figured out how to do it.


https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/31409_misc_photos_236.jpg
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/31409_misc_photos_138.jpg

I agree with you, I have 36 acres now, and I want a pond stocked with fish so bad. I grew up in an area where 2 acres cost you the equivalent of about 30 acres in the country, but it was right on the water with a dry dock, a wet dock, and a boat ramp. Was right at the tip of Florida at the water with a nice coral reef though.

WOW!! 36 acres.........I would be in heaven. We have 5 now and 2 1/2 of that is the pond. We are in a hurricane prone area so we've lost the pond and the fish twice since 2005. Rita kicked our tails with the wind but Ike tore our pond up in 2008. It was completely flooded with salt water. My husband lauched an aluminum boat in my driveway!! My brothernlaw had put 2 6 lb bass in it before he passed away and they were found dead in the ditch at about 8 lbs....we had about 1000 dead fish in our yard, stuck in the fence, etc........it was heartbreaking, but we are on the road to recovery......takes quite a while to pump it out and fill back up. I just pray that the VERY strange weather patterns this winter are no indication as to what hurricane season may hold in store for us or anyone else along the coastal US.
 
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I agree with you, I have 36 acres now, and I want a pond stocked with fish so bad. I grew up in an area where 2 acres cost you the equivalent of about 30 acres in the country, but it was right on the water with a dry dock, a wet dock, and a boat ramp. Was right at the tip of Florida at the water with a nice coral reef though.

WOW!! 36 acres.........I would be in heaven. We have 5 now and 2 1/2 of that is the pond. We are in a hurricane prone area so we've lost the pond and the fish twice since 2005. Rita kicked our tails with the wind but Ike tore our pond up in 2008. It was completely flooded with salt water. My husband lauched an aluminum boat in my driveway!! My brothernlaw had put 2 6 lb bass in it before he passed away and they were found dead in the ditch at about 8 lbs....we had about 1000 dead fish in our yard, stuck in the fence, etc........it was heartbreaking, but we are on the road to recovery......takes quite a while to pump it out and fill back up. I just pray that the VERY strange weather patterns this winter are no indication as to what hurricane season may hold in store for us or anyone else along the coastal US.

Agreed about the weather. I'm about a couple hour drive just north of tampa, fl so we had much the same. Where are you located by chance? the back ground of your photos looks awfully familiar. Pond looks awesome and love the nest boxes. How did you make the pond? Or was it already made when you got there?
 
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WOW!! 36 acres.........I would be in heaven. We have 5 now and 2 1/2 of that is the pond. We are in a hurricane prone area so we've lost the pond and the fish twice since 2005. Rita kicked our tails with the wind but Ike tore our pond up in 2008. It was completely flooded with salt water. My husband lauched an aluminum boat in my driveway!! My brothernlaw had put 2 6 lb bass in it before he passed away and they were found dead in the ditch at about 8 lbs....we had about 1000 dead fish in our yard, stuck in the fence, etc........it was heartbreaking, but we are on the road to recovery......takes quite a while to pump it out and fill back up. I just pray that the VERY strange weather patterns this winter are no indication as to what hurricane season may hold in store for us or anyone else along the coastal US.

Agreed about the weather. I'm about a couple hour drive just north of tampa, fl so we had much the same. Where are you located by chance? the back ground of your photos looks awfully familiar. Pond looks awesome and love the nest boxes. How did you make the pond? Or was it already made when you got there?

I'm in Lake Charles in southwest Louisiana about 30 minutes from the TX border. I-10 runs straight through LC so travel tothe west and you head towards Beauont and Houston and head towards the east and you go towards Baton Rouge. We hired a dirt contractor to dig our pond and he used some of the dirt to do our house pad and landscape our yard. He got the rest of dirt. Saved us about $20,000.....but it took him about 9 months to dig it.
 
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Agreed about the weather. I'm about a couple hour drive just north of tampa, fl so we had much the same. Where are you located by chance? the back ground of your photos looks awfully familiar. Pond looks awesome and love the nest boxes. How did you make the pond? Or was it already made when you got there?

I'm in Lake Charles in southwest Louisiana about 30 minutes from the TX border. I-10 runs straight through LC so travel tothe west and you head towards Beauont and Houston and head towards the east and you go towards Baton Rouge. We hired a dirt contractor to dig our pond and he used some of the dirt to do our house pad and landscape our yard. He got the rest of dirt. Saved us about $20,000.....but it took him about 9 months to dig it.

We were thinking of a similar style pond, but your ground is different from ours. We'd need to get a liner of some kind, we were thinking about grey clay. but would just be way to expensive. Would have done pigs but just would take way to long.
 
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I agree, I have lived here on our farm most all of my life and couldnt imagen being stuck in a city, I'd go crazy, we have 130 acres here, 12 acre pond, creek on one side, and loads of wildlife. I love it, couldnt imagen any thing different
Congrats on such a nice peice of property, see us men know what we're talking about every once in a while! LOL
 
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so jealous!!! I want more land too. I am stuck in a city with 1/8 of an acre. Desperately wanting to go into the country with 10 acres of land that I can have any duck I want.
 
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OMG!! So Jealous!!


Oh and on the Duck Nest Box's how do you get the duck to use it??
I have 3 pairs of Calls and I built them some flat nest just four sides and a bottom just tall enough to hold in a egg and short enough for them to step over into it.
They don't use them and i even have fake eggs in there and Hay forget that they pulled it all out
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Find eggs on the wire bottom of the cage
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Another question how many will they lay in a cycle??, they have laid about a dozen a piece and I was waiting to incubate till they were done laying
 
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OMG!! So Jealous!!


Oh and on the Duck Nest Box's how do you get the duck to use it??
I have 3 pairs of Calls and I built them some flat nest just four sides and a bottom just tall enough to hold in a egg and short enough for them to step over into it.
They don't use them and i even have fake eggs in there and Hay forget that they pulled it all out
hu.gif

Find eggs on the wire bottom of the cage
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Another question how many will they lay in a cycle??, they have laid about a dozen a piece and I was waiting to incubate till they were done laying

I have all of the same questions....the rouens are already starting to check out the boxes that DH built this wkend. I got home yesterday and couldn't find one of the drakes..........till he came tearing out of the laying box....scared me and him both 'bout half to death
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I don't know about the calls though. This is the 1st laying season I've had them, although I know they are of age. Hopefully, someone more knowledgeable about this will be able to help us both. I had the same thought on putting fake eggs in the boxes, didn't know if it would work as well for ducks as it does the chickens. Great minds think a like!!!!!!
 

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