[northfifeduckling]

I am quite sad about having to raid duck nests and undermine their efforts of motherhood. Sometimes when I find them the eggs are visibly "there" but we can't handle any more babies or ducks... I should just get rid of the boy but he's such a beauty and I might change my mind in the years to come...

[doganjo]

I am quite sad about having to raid duck nests and undermine their efforts of motherhood. Sometimes when I find them the eggs are visibly "there" but we can't handle any more babies or ducks... I should just get rid of the boy but he's such a beauty and I might change my mind in the years to come...

Just eat or bake with them!    Eggs is eggs, Kerstin!    Old ones go into the dog bowls here!

[mentalmilly]

No need to get rid of the boy, just eat the eggs.  We have the same problem but having seen the duck sit on eggs for 5 weeks getting nowhere, not having room for ducklings anyway, we now remove the eggs and the ducks scavenge all day quite happy with the drake.

[northfifeduckling]

We do eat them if I know roughly when they were laid! If I try to keep an I on them the crows or rats usually find them first. Some ducks are very good and I found a few nests where some eggs had a definite shade of life in them....In Indonesia that's a delicacy but not for me! I feel like a killer 

[doganjo]

I'm afraid I am cruel to my ducks.     I shut them in at night and don't let them out till at least 9 am.  All four girls have usually laid by then.  Then they get their breakfast, and their freedom.  I object strongly to rats and birds getting what I pay good money to produce!

[northfifeduckling]

That's not cruel, it's  10 here  . The determined youngsters do hold it in until they can get out, I'm sure of that! 

[lord flynn]

I know what you mean actually, I feel bad not letting my hens sit-although I only have one who's committed enough to go the whole 21 days so I do let her have a brood a year. Are all ducks more naturally broody?

[northfifeduckling]

It seems that only the younger ducks are bothered with nesting, probably the same as the hens. None of them has gone broody for a few years or the cockerel's past his best  .