Decorated duck eggs?

[newbyduckmom]

Anyone ever blown out the inside of a duck egg and made it into a decoration as they do with other eggs? Just wondering how difficult it is with the shells being so much thicker than chicken eggs?

 

[CrazyCatNChickenLady]

Ornament thread- Not just for chicken eggs!

I do mostly chicken eggs, but have a couple ducks just coming into lay. I think the duck eggs are a little easier because they are thicker and when making the hole it doesn't crack around the hole as easy. The only thing I've noticed though is when they're wet they're a lot more slippery and you can break more that way by accidentally dropping them in the sink! hah

 

[gofasterstripe]

I used to blow out alot of duck eggs and sell them on Ebay and decorate them myself too. I found it every easy to do, specialy if you have an egg blower tool, takes all of a minute to blow the suckers out.

 

[zzGypsy]

much sturdier result with the duck eggs, if you're going to do the work, it's less likely to get broken than with chicken eggs.
we got a little drill bit and put it in a screwdriver handle (the kind designed for changing tips) to drill out the end of the egg - doesn't take long, maybe 10-20 seconds to do. that way we've got a nice clean hole and no odd cracking.

used them a couple of years ago to make pysanky (here are some example pics, mine weren't quite this good! http://www.google.com/search?q=pysa...v&sa=X&ei=xCWXTsb3MM6XtweHxYD6Aw&ved=0CG4QsAQ )

 

[newbyduckmom]

Egg blowing tool, screw driver bits. Good ideas. Going to have to try this. Thanks for the input. If I succeed with have to share pics of course!