Yet another duck laying question...

[casportpony]

Do you have chickens?

 

[llombardo]

Do you have chickens?

Yes. My original thoughts were a chicken was sneaking over to lay an egg in the ducks nest, but I can not find any spot they could fit to get over. There is a fence and it's netted. Other thought is that they laid close to the fence and the ducks stole the egg, but they would have to move it about 15 ft and I can't imagine it being that clean on that journey.

 

[casportpony]

Yes. My original thoughts were a chicken was sneaking over to lay an egg in the ducks nest, but I can not find any spot they could fit to get over. There is a fence and it's netted. Other thought is that they laid close to the fence and the ducks stole the egg, but they would have to move it about 15 ft and I can't imagine it being that clean on that journey.

Try this... take a duck egg and wet it with water. Water on a duck egg usually balls and rolls off because there seems to be a coating on duck eggs, then try it with the brown egg. If the water doesn't roll off, it's almost certainly a chicken egg.

 

[llombardo]

Water did not roll off the duck egg and the other egg was the same.

I'm almost positive this is a chicken egg. I got one girl that is squatting but she is huge, no way she squeezed anywhere.

I really think the ducks stole both eggs. I wish I had a camera set up. I just can't see how they got it from point a to point b without being full of mud.

 

[llombardo]

So there was lots of chickens clucking and ducks quacking. I go outside and find one of the younger girls(the exact one I thought may be laying) on the duck side. She was having a good old time drinking their water and go in and out of their house. There is only one spot that is possible and she would have to really squeeze her big butt through there. I blocked it so let's see what happens. She is pretty young to be laying, 4 months on the 1st.

Guilty girl. Willow