Could this be a duck egg?

[Henrietta23]

Thanks for the ideas. No incubator here so no hatching. I will crack one tonight and see how that goes. I can't imagine which chicken could be laying eggs that pale if it's not a duck. The breeds I have are Buff Orpington, Black Australorp, Red Star, EE (both lay green eggs, although one hasn't laid an egg in a few months so I can't rule her out I suppose) Welsummer, and Barnevelder and Sasha who is a mutt.

 

[Dances with Ducks]

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Yes!

BIG difference between cracking open a chicken egg and a duck egg!

 

[nettie]

You practically have to pound a duck egg on a side of a bowl to get it to open.

Also, the texture will be different. The whites will be less runny than chicken eggs and the yoke will be oranger. I personally think the texture of a raw duck egg is super gross! We pretty much only hard boil them.

 

[shelleyd2008]

I would say that it probably is a duck egg.

The shell feels smoother

The ones of mine that I have found have been very smooth feeling, but not waxy.

Also because it was on the floor, that would make me agree that it probably is a duck egg. Do you have any other chickens though, that could lay a white egg, if they were laying? It is possible for brown egg layers to lay a lighter egg, but it would still be brown, just a lighter brown.​

 

[Henrietta23]

My BOs lay a fairly pale egg. It could be one of theirs. I haven't had a day when I've gotten more eggs than I have hens. There was no egg today on the floor this morning. I still haven't cracked them. I'll do that today.
Nettie, do you ever bake with your duck eggs? That's what I plan to do with mine!

 

[Henrietta23]

I cracked one open for breakfast. It wasn't all that different than a chicken egg as far as cracking. But the yolk was significantly larger than any of the chicken egg yolks. In this picture the chicken egg that produced the smaller yolk on the right was a larger egg than the one that produced the large yolk on the left.

 

[MissPrissy]

My ducks have started laying. Big white eggs. OMG I had forgotten how much I love duck eggs!

 

[shelleyd2008]

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Mine too!! After months and months of waiting, I finally have 3 duck eggs!! Would have been 4, but the stupid dog found the nest. Only 1 laying so far, or were I can find them, anyway, but they should start going stong anytime now, right? I haven't tried duck eggs, but I am looking so forward to it! I am allergic to chicken eggs, and hoping

that I'm not to duck's!!

 

[Henrietta23]

That's why I'm so hopeful that these really are duck eggs! I got some from Perfectly_Polish last year and baked with them. I think those were Cayuga so they looked very different from this one. Bigger too. If nothing else convinced my husband we had to have ducks that did! Everyone has been out free ranging today and I haven't found any. I have the same problem with the dogs. If the birds lay eggs in the coop I'm all set. Anywhere else and I risk the dogs finding them first. No sign of anything today. It's snowing now and everyone is locked up tight in the coop for the evening. I'm crossing my fingers for tomorrow!

 

[doubleostud]

My duck eggs, tend to be wavy looking sort of two toned with a off white and white hue.