Cayuga lay black eggs???

[WestKnollAmy]

Neat! I can't wait to get some.

I do not wash my eggs. Most of my girls are nice enough to lay in the nest boxes during the night and I can wipe off most of the grudge if they lay them on the floor of the coop but I don't eat the shell anyhow and when I crack them it all seems clean. I never get sick so it must be good stuff.

 

[bbhorsefly]

My Cayuga just laid her first egg

 

[CarleeAnn]

My Blue Swedish just started laying gray eggs and is the same age as my Cayuga so I hope she starts laying soon too!! We are so excited to get a black egg. We drained my Blue's first egg to preserve it, but we didn't know that if we washed it, it would turn white! So we also drained another pretty gray egg. Definitely keeping my Cayugas first black egg!! I want to make a nest to put the eggs in as a little decoration.

 

[bbhorsefly]

We also have a Blue Swedish! Can they lay black eggs too? What I read said Blue Swedish lay "white, green, or blue tinted" from the livestock conservancy website. We had been getting one to two cream with khaki greenish spotted eggs from our two khaki campbells, but then one morning there were three of those eggs so I just assumed the Swedish laid the same whitish egg.
Here is what all our duck eggs up to today have looked like.

 

[CarleeAnn]

Our eggs have been more grayish-cream than dark grey. I don't think they will ever be black though. Here are yesterday's and today's! I hope we get a Blue one too.

 

[pamelajean]

My Cayuga just laid her first eggView attachment 1135230

That is amazing!!!

 

[wallawu]

Two of our five are Cayugas, and they started laying last summer. No black eggs. This being the first spring, we've been getting 4 to 5 eggs a day for the last week or so, but today was a first in the black egg department. I'm wondering if someone was doing double duty last summer and this is one of our Cayuga's first time laying. I couldn't believe it when I brushed back the pine shavings. Is this going to happen every day and get lighter and lighter, or do they lay some cream eggs and sprinkle in dark ones?

 

[CarleeAnn]

View attachment 1288096 Two of our five are Cayugas, and they started laying last summer. No black eggs. This being the first spring, we've been getting 4 to 5 eggs a day for the last week or so, but today was a first in the black egg department. I'm wondering if someone was doing double duty last summer and this is one of our Cayuga's first time laying. I couldn't believe it when I brushed back the pine shavings. Is this going to happen every day and get lighter and lighter, or do they lay some cream eggs and sprinkle in dark ones?

My Cayuga lays greenish eggs after a break and they progressively get more cream- which is what I assume the Black will do. I don’t believe it will randomly lay black, only at the beginning of the egg laying period.

 

[katie246]

I have 7 Cayuga ducks laying and this is the different colours I get from them.View attachment 1300396

 

[katie246]