Hey everyone. I'm very new at raising farm animals. My family and I kind of fell into raising chickens and ducks (we went to a store in search for a rabbit and ended up with ducks and chickens instead). I've looked up a lot on how to raise them and they've all grown just fine. But I'm fairly stumped when it comes to the eggs. We want the duck eggs for hatching and the chicken eggs for eating. I've found three brown eggs (I was told they were about that age to lay, but my father told me it'd be a few more weeks. He had chickens growing up) so I'm not prepared at all. I don't know if they are duck eggs or chicken eggs since our chickens are allowed to be where we keep our ducks. Any help would be great. I don't want to make a mistake. =)
I've posted a photo of the three eggs.The one on the far right is the largest and was no where near the ducks. The other two were found with the ducks and I think my sister said she saw the duck lay the one with wax on it and leave it in the mud (but there's a chance I misheard her and she just saw it in the mud in their pen). It got cracked and I read on a post here that wax helps.
I've posted a photo of the three eggs.The one on the far right is the largest and was no where near the ducks. The other two were found with the ducks and I think my sister said she saw the duck lay the one with wax on it and leave it in the mud (but there's a chance I misheard her and she just saw it in the mud in their pen). It got cracked and I read on a post here that wax helps.
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