jpthequilter

That is interesting. We had mallards.
Jeannie

jpthequilter

That is interesting. We had mallards.
Jeannie

Ooops sorry - fuzzy fingers!

Foxflower

I have indian runners and call ducks. The "blue" indian runner duck lays a green egg but all the others, including the other colored indian runners, lay a cream colored egg....weird, huh.

jpthequilter

I looked them up! fascinating! The runners are described as
looking like bowling pins on legs running about.
and they lay lots of eggs!

Foxflower

Yup, lots of eggs.....if you can find them :?

jpthequilter

The source I read, says they don't make nests, but drop their eggs at random, and they kept them inside until later in the morning, to be able to collect their eggs from the floor of the duckhouse.
Thanks for the photo!

Foxflower

Part of the random dropping....is laying them in the water!

jpthequilter

Oh no! Goodness! LOL! Do you give them a little plastic pool - or what? Sounds like you have an Easter egg hunt every day!

Foxflower

Actually, we live on a farm. There is a small irrigation stream that runs by the house. They hang out in that. It has lots of trees, shrubs, etc for cover and shade. When that was dry last year I set up a shallow stock tank for them. Thankfully I don't need to do that this year...what a pain to drain and clean. I've given up hunting for the duck eggs. I have hard enough time finding all those free range chicken eggs and am sadly highly unsuccessful-- little stinkers.

jpthequilter

I used to live on a farm too! I understand you perfectly!
We had 200 chickens, but kept the feed troughs in the old chicken house, We filled those in the evening, Kept the chickens in over night or really bad weather and let them out in the morning. We had a bunch of pole roosts and lots of box nests, which they used, which made the egg gathering easier. Otherwise, they were free range.