Hi! I'm new here, and I don't know much about the lives of waterfowl. We live in a neighborhood with a pond that is home to a flock of geese and a few ducks who seem to stick together against the geese. The pond has been taken over by duckweed, so I was out scooping it to try to put a dent in it so all the fish don't die.
I was scooping by the edge and found an egg. All the geese we're in the water and the ducks were nowhere around. I thought maybe they didn't know it was there, there's no nest, it was just under the water and duckweed in about 3 inches of water. I set it beside me so it didn't get hurt and scooped a couple more times. Then I stirred 2 more eggs close to the first, so I put the first one beside them and left that spot.
A Google search found an old thread that occasionnaoc ducks will lay by accident in the water, so here are my questions:
Will these eggs be ok in the water, or should I oull them out and leave them on the bank? Should I find someone who could incubate them, since the ducks seemed completely oblivious? Is there something else I should do that I don't know to ask?
Side note, I'm not sure they're duck eggs. They were larger than chicken eggs, shell seemed pretty hard. They could be from the geese, but they seemed unconcerned as well. There are these big ducks that are black and white with red skin showing through their feathers all over the country, and two have been hanging around. There's also a white duck, a mallard, and a brown duck (seems to be the female of the trio). Those three are smaller than all the other birds.
I was scooping by the edge and found an egg. All the geese we're in the water and the ducks were nowhere around. I thought maybe they didn't know it was there, there's no nest, it was just under the water and duckweed in about 3 inches of water. I set it beside me so it didn't get hurt and scooped a couple more times. Then I stirred 2 more eggs close to the first, so I put the first one beside them and left that spot.
A Google search found an old thread that occasionnaoc ducks will lay by accident in the water, so here are my questions:
Will these eggs be ok in the water, or should I oull them out and leave them on the bank? Should I find someone who could incubate them, since the ducks seemed completely oblivious? Is there something else I should do that I don't know to ask?
Side note, I'm not sure they're duck eggs. They were larger than chicken eggs, shell seemed pretty hard. They could be from the geese, but they seemed unconcerned as well. There are these big ducks that are black and white with red skin showing through their feathers all over the country, and two have been hanging around. There's also a white duck, a mallard, and a brown duck (seems to be the female of the trio). Those three are smaller than all the other birds.
