Since this topic isn't very old I thought I'd just post here. I broke open my first rouen duck egg last night (not the ducks first egg, my first experience with a duck egg. It was probably the ducks 3rd or 4th egg) and the membrane was pretty thick and tough. I kept trying to crack it open and pieces of the shell were chipping off and I didn't want pieces of shell in with the egg so I was picking pieces of shell off the egg and I had maybe half of the egg "peeled" with the membrane still holding the egg so I then cut the membrane with a knife to get the egg out. So I also am wondering if this is normal. Makes it a pain in the you know where to crack open an egg. I don't know what the egg tasted like because I put it in buttermilk cornbread. I feed a 16% layer feed along with maybe 20 mealworms when I put the layer feed in their food bowl and I have a small container of oyster shell calcium out near the food,but they don't appear to eat any of the oyster shell calcium. And they walk around the yard from sun up to sundown eating whatever they eat when they walk in a yard. Another thing about the egg it didn't seem to have much "white" in it, it seemed like it was not all yolk, but not very much white. I ,of course,am doing my comparison to a chicken egg.
So,are duck eggs supposed to be like that?
So,are duck eggs supposed to be like that?
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