Daily Duck Egg Report

[Miss Lydia]

Egg salt is egg pickle.. It call egg salt because you need to mix salt in warm water until all the salt dissolve then put an egg in the salt water and see if the egg float that mean it salty enough for make pickle then wait until the water cool down to room temperature and put all the eggs in. Let the eggs sit for 20 - 30 days (depend how much salty you want your eggs to be, you can take one out and hard boil in the water to try after 20 days or you can make omelette. The egg yolk will be very hard, rich and delicious flavor. You can smash the eggs yolk to small piece and put on top of cook rice or.. roasted green beans, asparagus with a little ground black pepper on top.. it's very delicious. Vietnamese use salt egg yolk to make Vietnamese traditional mooncake, it's very different with American Mooncake but it's good. Here a Vietnamese Mooncake recipe that I found from Youtube

Sounds very interesting I've never heard of making egg pickle, my dad is from Pa. and they make pickled eggs and beets and I love them but these are already hard boiled, so now another way to eat eggs, sound yummy too.

 

[HollyDuckFarmer]

Loved listening to the voice on that video! Looks like a recipe that I might make for special occasions! Neat. Thanks for sharing.

I have about 25 eggs waiting... Was going to bake today, got busy. So maybe tomorrow, and I'm thinking about separating eggs from yolks and freezing up that way. I love having my own fresh supply of eggs!

 

[hannahsg0307]

7 chicken eggs
5 duck eggs (include 1 soft shell).

 

[trondin]

My Pekin duck, Luna, just started laying eggs this past week, and she has laid 5 perfectly fine eggs, five days in a row always around the same time at 5 in the morning when she starts building her nest. But these past two days (the 18th and 19th) she has laid soft eggs that are soft enough she accidentally squashed them im assuming because they were broken when i found them in her cage and the yolks were all over, and she laid them between 10 and 11:50 pm......my question is, is this normal for a first time layer? or is her calcium intake not correct?(as I saw the was the explanation for some other questions) she eats Dumor brand layer crumbles for egg layers with her correct percentage of protein for her age and snacks on fruits and veggies and meal worms. Her diet hasnt changed since shes been laying either so I am not sure if I should be concerned

 

[ducksinarow]

One egg from 5 ducks. Does anyone know at what age ducks stop laying. Mine are 3.

 

[Miss Lydia]

One egg from 5 ducks. Does anyone know at what age ducks stop laying. Mine are 3.

They may just be beginning to go into molt, I have ducks from age 10ys down to 1 yr and the 10 yr old lay an egg every once in a while, but mine are starting to slow down now and molt will begin soon .I got 2 eggs from 9girls today and 1 was from the 10yr old. lol

 

[Miss Lydia]

My Pekin duck, Luna, just started laying eggs this past week, and she has laid 5 perfectly fine eggs, five days in a row always around the same time at 5 in the morning when she starts building her nest. But these past two days (the 18th and 19th) she has laid soft eggs that are soft enough she accidentally squashed them im assuming because they were broken when i found them in her cage and the yolks were all over, and she laid them between 10 and 11:50 pm......my question is, is this normal for a first time layer? or is her calcium intake not correct?(as I saw the was the explanation for some other questions) she eats Dumor brand layer crumbles for egg layers with her correct percentage of protein for her age and snacks on fruits and veggies and meal worms. Her diet hasnt changed since shes been laying either so I am not sure if I should be concerned

It happens sometimes when their bodies are working out the kinks of beginning layers. You could also offer some Oyster shell in a side dish she'll use it as needed.

Welcome to BYC.

 

[HollyDuckFarmer]

4'F outside today in my world, but I just got 5 eggs from my 7 gals! All perfect!

 

[patolocoeggs]

I found it funny that my drakes are using some of the girls nesting boxes to stay cozy in this winter. The straw is all matted down flat instead of how the girls make nests in the straw for their eggs. Silly boys! Luckily I have enough nesting boxes . My girls are almost all laying eggs daily. Some mornings some of them take the day off but then then lay again the next day.

 

[AddictedToQuack]

HDF and Patolocoeggs: I am assuming that you are keeping a light on your ducks to have them laying this time of year? I'm just on the north side of Lake Ontario and my ducks (appleyards, khaki, cayuga and a few mixes) are not laying at all. Not since mid November. 10 of my girls just started coming into lay before winter set in then shut it down. My "older" ducks came back into lay at the end of February last year. Would be nice to get a few eggs in the winter?