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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: raygezer on July 06, 2011, 06:15:37 pm

Title: ducks eating there own eggs
Post by: raygezer on July 06, 2011, 06:15:37 pm

Hi is there anybody out there that keeps alesbury ducks and have come across this problem before, I have heard that chickens sometimes do it but never ducks .Any ideas gratefully received

Title: Re: ducks eating there own eggs
Post by: manian on July 06, 2011, 07:25:44 pm

hi
not sure about ducks ....... but one of our turkeys has started...... >:(
Mx

Title: Re: ducks eating there own eggs
Post by: doganjo on July 06, 2011, 08:51:23 pm

Have had hens doing it but none of my ducks ever has, over a period of 10 years and lots of different ducks. Are you sure it was a duck that opened it ebcasue their shells are extremely tough, perhaps it was a sharper point that did it?  Magpie, hen?

Title: Re: ducks eating there own eggs
Post by: It-needed-a-home on July 07, 2011, 08:04:06 am

i have loads of problems with my ducks and eggs . they are like a treat for them they love there own eggs  its such a shame cause there really nice too but i sometimes dont get a cahnce to collect them the only time they dont tend to eat them is if there gonna sit on them !!!!!


no cure as to yet!!!

Title: Re: ducks eating there own eggs
Post by: northfifeduckling on July 07, 2011, 06:07:18 pm

It's not so easy for them to break eggs up (as it is for hens) but they will eat them if it happens. One of mine lays thin shelled eggs and most days there is not much evidence left of it when I come to collect but the strong eggs I think are fine. It's hard to tell why we are short of eggs in numbers, they might lay outdoors and I can't find them, be broody or put off....
You can try the same as works for some hens - add a few stone eggs to the nesting box and fill some others with mustard. Good luck! :&>