Where ducks lay eggs... question

[nao57]

So today while doing research on Youtube a couple of interesting things popped up!

I'm not claiming to be an expert, but it sounds like something to bounce off you more experienced people and see what you think.

On one of the duck videos, this person said that ducks like to lay their eggs in water.

That sort of caught my attention, because a lot of people here have said that ducks will just drop them anywhere.

But its also true that people here are very experienced, but probably don't own small lakes or islands etc like someone like J. Epstein...though he doesn't use ducks as his toys on his island. Cough...

Err...anyway, where I was going with this is...isn't it possible that if you were a duck, and your owner didn't have any lakes or ponds, it might seem like you were laying eggs anywhere at all randomly, when in fact you and your other duck friends were just confused because the owner didn't have a spot of vast water pooled up for you to drop those eggs in?

So therefore it could look like the ducks are leaving the eggs randomly when they might actually just be like 'wtquack, where's the water?', and run out of time and just drop them?

 

[goslingluv]

ducks dont lay eggs in the water. Mine nest mostly. In strange places yes but the make nest when they can... mine use the dog house, straw, bushes etc... every now and then they will lay an egg randomly and move on without making a nest.