Duck eggs

[dpingtrich352]

Can someone tell me what type of duck eggs these are?? We have pekins, mallards, Cayugas, Blue swedish, and Khaki Campbell.

 

[sylviethecochin]

My Pekins lay white eggs; my mallards and blue swedes lay off-white.

The darker eggs do look like some Cayuga eggs I saw at a county fair once, if that's any help.

@Miss Lydia might know...

 

[Miss Lydia]

I know Runner Buff and Muscovy.

 

[dpingtrich352]

My Pekins lay white eggs; my mallards and blue swedes lay off-white.

The darker eggs do look like some Cayuga eggs I saw at a county fair once, if that's any help.

@Miss Lydia might know...

Our eggs are not very big if that would help to identify them.

 

[Miss Lydia]

@CayugaJana can probably say if there’s. Cayuga egg in there.

 

[dpingtrich352]

Three of the eggs was in their duck house on the pond in some straw. Will all of these ducks lay eggs daily?

 

[sylviethecochin]

Blue Swedes and Pekins both lay eggs very frequently (not quite daily, but close) during the breeding season, and Blue Swedish and Mallards lay daily when they're about to go broody. Mallards lay sporadically if they're not about to go broody.

 

[dpingtrich352]

Blue Swedes and Pekins both lay eggs very frequently (not quite daily, but close) during the breeding season, and Blue Swedish and Mallards lay daily when they're about to go broody. Mallards lay sporadically if they're not about to go broody.

Will they stay on the eggs to hatch if I don’t pick them up?

 

[sylviethecochin]

Will they stay on the eggs to hatch if I don’t pick them up?

Mallards usually will. Blue Swedish often will. Pekins almost never will, and, of course, it varies by individuals within the breed. No idea about Khakis.

Do you want ducklings? If so, I'd put down some golf balls for them to sit on, just in case, (because leaving eggs around attracts rodents, and leaving eggs around for a very long time leads to rotten eggs) and date the eggs with a pencil every day you gather them. Put the nicest ones in a cool, fairly dry place (I like a basket in the basement) without washing them. If a duck begins to set, replace golf balls with eggs at night.

If you don't want ducklings, gather the eggs everyday. Hopefully, that will discourage them. I'm not sure a broody-breaker cage will work with ducks, but the duck people might know.

 

[Knighstar679]

The dark eggs that have a gray tint to them look like Cayuga eggs. As they tend to be the only breed that lays coal gray to light gray eggs.