first cayuga egg laid; marvelous

[primordialkraken]

sweet Quackhead is almost two years old and we thought she wouldnt lay! the warm spell in VT this winter must have coaxed it out of her beautiful egg

 

[Ilovemychicks08]

Congratulations on the first egg!

Two years is a wait!

 

[primordialkraken]

Congratulations on the first egg!

Two years is a wait!

thanks!! it definitely relieved some unspoken concerns...!

 

[Miss Lydia]

Nice egg Congrats. I just adopted a Cayuga in Jan she is 4 yrs old and so far no egg from her, I keep waiting.

 

[p4PaDuck]

Congratulations on the first egg!

Two years is a wait!

Super long wait compared to my girls!
Beautiful duck egg, primordialkraken!

 

[Sosalty]

1st eggs are cool! What do we call its' color?

 

[primordialkraken]

Nice egg Congrats. I just adopted a Cayuga in Jan she is 4 yrs old and so far no egg from her, I keep waiting.

I imagine she will! We got our cayuga as a hatchling in the fall time, and then fast forward a year and we were moving in the fall, and we think that may have thrown her off of "wanting" to lay (unsure if that is real or just a wildguess), and now that it has gotten warm out after wintertime we thought maybe all of the conditions/variables were right.

Hopefully your cayuga lays once she gets all settled and acclimated

 

[primordialkraken]

1st eggs are cool! What do we call its' color?

I would say black, kinda ombres interestingly enough!

 

[primordialkraken]

Super long wait compared to my girls!
Beautiful duck egg, primordialkraken!

When did your girls first lay? I feel that i had read cayugas begin laying closer to the one year mark. Thank you as well

 

[p4PaDuck]

They started laying at 6 months whole bunch sooner than my chickens, which started laying at around 8 months.
No problem! Anytime for a fellow duck lover!