Ducks stopped laying eggs !

[MamaChic21]

I have 3 female ducks. They turned 1 year old this month. All winter long, they gave us sucha tasty eggs however, they stopped 2 months ago

. Does anyone know why ? Will they start laying eggs again ?

 

[MamaChic21]

bumber

 

[MamaChic21]

I really thought someone will respond, bumber

 

[missy5]

Ok, i will respond but i don,t know much. I just asked the same question to my friend i bought call ducks from. My original calls i got last summer were laying eggs in Feb. and then stopped. She only layed six eggs, but she was young. She is a year this month and she is spending alot of time mating and hanging out in a box in the coop. She is acting like she's getting ready to lay. My friend said she will start again. So keep your fingers crossed and it should happen. I guess they take a break. What kind of ducks do you have? Angie.

 

[Emmalion]

Also if you have them free ranging they may be "hiding" them. Just keep hope they will start again because they will maybe a molt? never know.

 

[MamaChic21]

Thank you for responding

I have 1 black runner, I know that for sure but the other 2 I don't know.
1 is brown

And the 3rd one is black and white.

I use to free range them and I've searched everywhere possible to see if they did lay their egg, but I couldn't find it. One time for few days, I couldn't see their eggs and it was in the winter. And couple of days later I saw their eggs bared under a hay

. I felt like a little kid, I was so happy. But now they moved into their new run and coop and they are not free ranging. I certainly hope they will lay more eggs. I prefer duck eggs anyday

I wish you luck too, hope your ducks will lay soon.

 

[Emmalion]

Hummmmm well a friend of mine had her ducks laying in the chickens nests. She had no clue her ducks were laying and was accidentally selling them with her chicken eggs.

 

[MamaChic21]

Quote:
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. I did see their eggs few times in the chicken's nest. At the begining, if they layed their eggs in the chicken nest box, I wouldn't know the difference either, but since I know how their eggs looks like, I can tell them apart. The second day at their new run and coop, I found 1 egg on the floor (run's floor). I was first happy maybe they're back laying again but it was too small to be theirs

 

[Emmalion]

Oh did you recently move them? Is that when they stopped laying? It could be the reason why they stopped laying

 

[MamaChic21]

They stopped laying 2 months ago and we moved them last Sunday to their new coop.