Browse Wood Duck Eggs pictures, photos, images, GIFs, and videos on Photobucket Clutches range from 10-16 eggs and are incubated for 28 to 30 days.

Close up eggs of duck and chicken are placed on a wooden table with various. White duck eggs in wooden panels waiting to be sold. While most experienced waterfowl aviculturist find wood duck ducklings fairly easy to raise, many people attempting it for the first time find them quite challenging. The ducklings are born with feathers and leave the nest quickly. A single nest can hold more than 40 eggs if some of the eggs are laid by other females. It is very common for more than one hen to lay eggs in the same nest box or natural cavity. Egg-dumping, or "intraspecific brood parasitism" is common in Wood Ducks—females visit other Wood Duck cavities, lay eggs in them, and leave them to be raised by the other female. If a female cannot find a nest of her own, then she will lay her eggs inside another wood duck's nest. White duck eggs are in the panel wood. This may have been made more common by the abundance and conspicuousness of artificial nest boxes; in some areas it happens in more than half of all nests. Shop with confidence. After a few weeks, the eggs hatch. If the eggs are removed early in incubation the hen will often produce a second clutch. Find great deals on eBay for wood duck eggs and mandarin duck eggs.

Wood duck eggs/dump nests: A mature hen wood duck commonly lays 12-14 eggs.

Eggs of duck and chicken are placed on a wooden table with various vegetables. In southern parts of the breeding range the wood duck regularly produces two broods in a single breeding season—and is the only North American duck to do so Females will sometimes ‘parasitize’ or lay eggs in the nest of another wood duck Latin name Aix sponsa means ‘in wedding raiment’ Second clutches will normally consist of less eggs than the first.

Smaller clutches could be from a young hen or a mature hen renesting after a failed clutch.