What Kind?

[needlessjunk]

I was under the impression only runners did this, maybe not. My ducks always make a nest and cover their eggs. Even if I let them out to graze early, they will go back in and lay in their nesting area. Is this uncommon? Do my ducks think they are chickens?

Some are better than others. I'm pretty sure my white layer laid her egg in the pool. Found it 3 days later, yuck! My runners lay in the house, my Cayuga likes to build a nest in the yard and my welsh harlequin can't make up her mind. Since she is getting ready to skip a day and laying later each day she usually drops and walks or if I'm lucky she makes a nest in the mulch.

 

[sbohlar]

She seem to have no mothering instincts at all. She just want to forage and run around. I have a duck magazine and she looks like the picture of the runner in it by her bill is black and in the pic the duck has a yellow bill. I let them out anywhere between 7 and 8. She has already had her egg and is sitting somewhere else. I have a barrel turned on it side with grass in it for a nest or a place to lay but neither of them ever use it. The picture showed a piken that she looks like to but the description she fits is runner. I am still at a loss for my other tubby duck. Thank you to all who posted on my string. This has been very informative for me a new duck mother.

 

[sjohnson1022]

any idea what kind if duck he/she is?

 

[needlessjunk]

any idea what kind if duck he/she is?

A blue Swedish if she has a bib. She is some kind of blue duck.

 

[sjohnson1022]

Here is another pic

 

[needlessjunk]

Here is another pic

Very pretty! I think she/he is a mix.