My duck is covering her eggs with wood shaving but not sitting on them. What does that mean?

[aujcich]

Hi! For the last week or so I just thought my duck was only laying an egg every couple days but today I realized she is coving them up with the wood shavings but I don't ever see her sitting on them; she spend her day out in the yard. She is a rouen and sleeps in our chicken coop along with my male peking and 13 chickens. I was hoping someone could tell me what this means.

 

[BReeder!]

following along. my ducks do the same thing. I wish they would sit...

 

[CoriM]

It must be spring and the urge to nest? I don't even have a male, but one of my females stopped laying in the nesting box a couple weeks ago. She now saves her egg until they get let into the run in the morning, then makes a little nest in the shavings and lays there - but doesn't stay on it.

 

[chickens really]

Ducks lay a clutch of eggs and will cover them with bedding before she desides to set them. Once her hormones raise she will set them all to hatch.

 

[aujcich]

Ducks lay a clutch of eggs and will cover them with bedding before she desides to set them. Once her hormones raise she will set them all to hatch.

So should I just leave the eggs there or are the bad now?

 

[chickens really]

So should I just leave the eggs there or are the bad now?

How many hens and how long have they been hiding them? You can toss all out and then daily mark them ..

 

[Miss Lydia]

Do you want duckling? If not just remove all the eggs she’ll keep laying but you’ll just have to dig for them.

 

[aujcich]

How many hens and how long have they been hiding them? You can toss all out and then daily mark them ..

I only have 1 hen and one drake. I only just found them this morning and there where 6 in the nest and i collected one 2 days ago so maybe 7 days if she has been laying everyday.

 

[chickens really]

I only have 1 hen and one drake. I only just found them this morning and there where 6 in the nest and i collected one 2 days ago so maybe 7 days if she has been laying everyday.

Leave them if you want her to hatch or at least possibly begin to set them.

 

[Kholts]

This is all good information to know! The last 2 days I have also been finding the eggs (5 different ducks) in one nest and covered by straw. Who ever is covering them does a great job as I didn’t see them at all..I just knew where to look.