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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: doganjo on November 22, 2015, 11:34:16 pm

Title: Woo hoo, my baby ducks are laying :-)
Post by: doganjo on November 22, 2015, 11:34:16 pm

One of my Shetland girls has been laying for a week but today there were four eggs so they are all laying now. Not babies any more!  :(

Title: Re: Woo hoo, my baby ducks are laying :-)
Post by: mojocafa on November 23, 2015, 06:43:15 am

 :excited:


 :thumbsup:

Title: Re: Woo hoo, my baby ducks are laying :-)
Post by: doganjo on November 23, 2015, 10:57:24 am

Problem is there are rats in the garage so eggs are going missing.  Saw ratty this morning.

Title: Re: Woo hoo, my baby ducks are laying :-)
Post by: devonlady on November 24, 2015, 10:38:19 am

Poison the bu##er . A length of drainpipe about three foot long put against the wall and put the bait right in the middle so nothing else can get at it.

Title: Re: Woo hoo, my baby ducks are laying :-)
Post by: doganjo on November 24, 2015, 09:37:58 pm

No poison here - I have a cat and dogs.  I live next to a burn so impossible to control anyway

Title: Re: Woo hoo, my baby ducks are laying :-)
Post by: devonlady on November 25, 2015, 07:11:41 pm

Then get up early and be there before the rat!!

Title: Re: Woo hoo, my baby ducks are laying :-)
Post by: doganjo on November 25, 2015, 09:36:29 pm

They can have them - I don't do early!  :innocent:

Title: Re: Woo hoo, my baby ducks are laying :-)
Post by: bigchicken on December 02, 2015, 10:23:25 pm

No eggs here yet.

Title: Re: Woo hoo, my baby ducks are laying :-)
Post by: doganjo on December 03, 2015, 11:42:10 am

I'm regularly getting four a day now.  Whether Jack is doing his work or not I have no idea as I don't have time to watch them.  Is there any way of telling if they are fertile without incubating them?

Title: Re: Woo hoo, my baby ducks are laying :-)
Post by: bigchicken on December 05, 2015, 03:42:46 pm

Yes if you crack one open you will see a small different colour spot on the yoke.

Title: Re: Woo hoo, my baby ducks are laying :-)
Post by: doganjo on December 05, 2015, 09:49:59 pm

Hmm but then it definitely won't incubate   :innocent:

Title: Re: Woo hoo, my baby ducks are laying :-)
Post by: northfifeduckling on December 18, 2015, 07:48:50 pm

Hi Annie - do you have new ducks? Did Cameron's mongrels  :innocent: get lost or foxed?

Title: Re: Woo hoo, my baby ducks are laying :-)
Post by: doganjo on December 19, 2015, 12:50:57 am

No, gave then to a friend who has a huge netted field as they had become very wild - wouldn't come near me, and had learned to fly - they disappeared up river every now and then and gave them to Ian to saved their lives really.  Got some Shetlands from Moira, much easier to talk to although still a bit flighty - but at least one can't fly away - Angel has angel wings

Title: Re: Woo hoo, my baby ducks are laying :-)
Post by: Victorian Farmer on December 19, 2015, 07:28:36 pm

Soon

Title: Re: Woo hoo, my baby ducks are laying :-)
Post by: waterbuffalofarmer on December 19, 2015, 08:36:58 pm

Thanks for that Victorian farmer just what I needed, weather is horrible here.

Title: Re: Woo hoo, my baby ducks are laying :-)
Post by: northfifeduckling on December 19, 2015, 09:13:07 pm

yes, same here, Thanks!  :excited:

Title: Re: Woo hoo, my baby ducks are laying :-)
Post by: doganjo on December 20, 2015, 11:42:15 pm

They haven't stopped - keep finding nests of eggs - weather hasn't made any difference like it has the hens - one egg every couple of days is their output just now!  :(

Title: Re: Woo hoo, my baby ducks are laying :-)
Post by: twizzel on December 23, 2015, 10:12:37 am

My 2 runners have started laying this week... nice Christmas treat, just a shame I've already done all of my xmas baking  :roflanim:

Title: Re: Woo hoo, my baby ducks are laying :-)
Post by: bigchicken on January 09, 2016, 03:29:01 pm

I've got one laying now 1 egg most mornings.