Daily Duck Egg Report

[Miss Lydia]

10 eggs from 12 ducks today! Its a good day!

 

[zook]

I've posted a picture before of a giant egg in this thread, but this one tops it. 147 grams! Ouch! I'm surprised there wasn't any blood with this one, poor girl. I assume it was my Blue Swedish as the Anconas are much smaller than her.

Hi been absent for a while but today was noteworthy. One of my ducks laid a 170 gram egg today.The other egg is a normal size KC egg.
between my 6 ducks and 5 chickens I have about 225 eggs laid since mid Jan.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Hi been absent for a while but today was noteworthy. One of my ducks laid a 170 gram egg today.The other egg is a normal size KC egg.
between my 6 ducks and 5 chickens I have about 225 eggs laid since mid Jan.

Good to see you zook, and congrats on all the eggs, someone is really over zelous about the size of them too. goodness.

 

[zook]

That was a shocker for sure to see that in the nest box. A 6oz + duck egg is a tad big to lay. poor thing. Thinking I have to move the Khaki Campbell girls because I think the Muscovy drake is breeding them by the looks of the thinning neck feathers on the girls. I've never seen mating but sometimes the muscovies are breeding at first light.

 

[armourereric]

14 Tuesday, 16 yesterday, 15 so far today (10;15A), I have some late layers here. Everyone has heard about the California droughts, we are just starting a winter storm that is supposed to drop 7" of rain over the next 60 hours.

 

[Miss Lydia]

14 Tuesday, 16 yesterday, 15 so far today (10;15A), I have some late layers here. Everyone has heard about the California droughts, we are just starting a winter storm that is supposed to drop 7" of rain over the next 60 hours.

That's alot of rain at one time. and alot of eggs too. Hope everyone will be safe and not wash away.

 

[Miss Lydia]

That was a shocker for sure to see that in the nest box. A 6oz + duck egg is a tad big to lay. poor thing. Thinking I have to move the Khaki Campbell girls because I think the Muscovy drake is breeding them by the looks of the thinning neck feathers on the girls. I've never seen mating but sometimes the muscovies are breeding at first light.

zook why don't you want them mating?

 

[creaturelife]

well i got another mallard egg today no muscovy eggs so now my mallard hen has 3 eggs in her nest box and i also have a broody turkey on 17 eggs now i just have to wait on my mallard to go broody cant wait for them to all hatch

 

[Miss Lydia]

well i got another mallard egg today no muscovy eggs so now my mallard hen has 3 eggs in her nest box and i also have a broody turkey on 17 eggs now i just have to wait on my mallard to go broody cant wait for them to all hatch

your going to have lots of babies running around this spring. Can't wait to see the pics.

 

[zook]

zook why don't you want them mating?

I want some muscovies to set on eggs and sometimes its hard to tell KC from Muscovy eggs as they are sorta similar in shade. So a clutch would have a mix of eggs possibly. I didn't want KC eggs to hatch and the muscovy eggs a few days later and mom leaves the pure muscovy eggs if she thinks they aren't going to hatch when the hybrids hatch sooner or so research says.With everybody laying in the same nests it could get confusing. I'd just as soon have a KC drake and separate everybody.