what the heck...?

[Wifezilla]

I have a great big giant mountain in my back yard that cuts off an hour or two of sunlight a night. With that I wasn't expecting my spring hatch girls to lay until next year. But I have been getting some really cute tiny little eggs that I know are from my young Welsh Harlequins.

 

[FenDruadin]

Most of mine have slowed down thanks to the dwindling daylight, but... my Holderread ducks are laying like champs, and they're just little magpies. From three hens, I'm getting two to three eggs a day. Out of my other 15 female ducks (all Runners, only one is Holderread) I get another 1 to 4 per day. I believe one of those 1 to 4 is probably from the Holderread Runner hen, but I have no way of knowing without separating her.

I am becoming more and more a believer in what Dave Holderread told me earlier this year--line matters more than breed. I suspect it also matters more than latitude, but I have no data to back that up.

 

[shelleyd2008]

My ducks usually take a break for a month or so in the winter but otherwise they lay all year.

 

[Wifezilla]

Well, the dad of both of my youngsters is a Holdderead's duck...

 

[FenDruadin]

My understanding is that the father carries at least as much of the laying gene as the female, so that makes sense. I rehomed all but one of my hatchery drakes this year, and am interested to see what the Holderread drakes do for my flock's overall genetics.

 

[linda_zeagler31002]

I live in deep southern part of Georgia and have a duck farm, ZeaglerDuckFarm.com, our temps have dropped to COLD, lol, and my spring ducks and geese and everything LOL, is laying up a strom, but last year and year before last they laid through out the year, all but my seasonal exotic and call layers.

 

[Birdcrazy]

My ducks pretty much lay all year, and I reckon you need to have some christmas babies in the bator, duckie!!

 

[lovesduckies]

we have an egg frenzy in my backyard. the igloo has 3 or 4 eggs, one of the mallards has 4 and my other scovy hen has 4. not sure the other mallard is laying.

sheesh