What do I need to do to keep them laying?

Having issues

Cool fresh water,high protein feed and luck. They don't do well in hot weather, I am having problems here it has been in the 90's for a month.

Fresh water, oyster shells, layer mix and a place to nest with a little elbow room is important stress will slow them down a bit. Any change in feed or extreme stress, animal attacks are all bad for laying.

I'll tell ya

If our ducks start laying and are as easy as everyone says to keep laying.

I'll butcher all the chickens

I have 2 buckets of duck eggs and when I look after the neighbors ducks they are all over and some are huge!

Chicken: harder, smaller, acidic

Duck: easier, bigger, alkaline

Are duck eggs good to eat?

I'm concerned with cooking the duck because of grease. But got a friend telling me you can cook it out

duck eggs are great to eat

Chickens do not produce very many eggs when it is hot, especially if your coop is in full sun with no shade.

Like said already. Make sure they have plenty of fresh cold water.

Free range
Fresh water and food every day
Barn to go in for shade


I dont think we were feeding them enough?

I put them in a cage set up early spring a they just stopped.

Been a battle ever since then

Google molt, they might be in molt... if they are going through that it will be a while till you get regular eggs again.

My chickens have been slow here all summer also I think a lot of folks said that in the spring also. I have 20 layers and 20 chicks from this year 3/4 grown don't expect anything from them yet. The layers have been erratic one day 4 eggs the next a dozen then 8 then 6 no rhyme or reason to it could be the heat like said but just not great.

How old are they?

Crush up some dry dog food and mix it in with there normal feed. More often then not an increase in protein will spur egg production and dry dog food works great. Also as mentioned several time cool fresh water and shade. Get some bottles filled with water and freeze them. Put them in the cage and the birds will lay on them or next to them to cool down. It works great and they love it.

just like any other woman,spoil them and they will do whatever you want.

Well

They better hope the ducks don't out perform! Because this really is a race to the freezer