Egg identification help

[Brookenheil]

Please help if you can. We have khaki campbells and muscovies and we just found their first eggs this weekend (4 so far). The only problem is we don't know if they are muscovy or kc eggs. We are looking to eat the kc eggs and hatch the muscovies so any help is greatly appreciated!

I found them in the mud, before I relocated them to the duck hut, hence the state they are in. In person, they are almost white, with a slight greenish hue. The big one was a double yolker, but otherwise I think it looks like the other 3.

 

[quackingdom]

Try weighing the eggs. KC eggs weigh 28-34 ounces per dozen, Muscovy eggs weigh 38-50 ounces per dozen. (PER EGG would be 2.3 – 2.8 ounces for KC, and 3.2 – 4.2 ounces for Muscovy.)

Also, there's no way you can possibly hatch ALL the Muscovy eggs. If you have three Muscovy hens and hatch all their eggs, you're going to have over a hundred babies. Muscovies lay 50-125 eggs a year (depending on your climate and how often they go broody), although that number will be low if you hatch often. So you can probably plan on eating at least a few of them. They taste excellent.

I love the combination of meat duck/egg duck. Gives you the best of both worlds!

Oh, I thought of something else. The Muscovies are likely to hide their eggs, and they will almost never just drop an egg wherever they happen to be. Egg-laying breeds are more likely to not care.

 

[Brookenheil]

Thank you for the quick response! We are probably only going to have one clutch at a time for hatching and eat the rest. We just want to make sure only the muscovy eggs hatch since we will be raising them for meat. We had to eat our KC drake a couple of weeks ago because he was too aggressive with the muscovy hens and there wasn't much meat to him. Our newly acquired muscovy drake seems to be fitting in much better and hopefully having the hens not be so stressed will do them much good in the egg laying/hatching department.

I am trying to think of where they could be hiding them, because though we have a good sized yard there is not a lot of hidey holes. Too bad they are not more like our chickens who go in the same nest box every time.

 

[quackingdom]

You're welcome. They're not necessarily going to hide them, but it's possible. Mine do it every once in a while, but they usually use a nest.
Also, it wasn't really that quick of a response. Sometimes people respond in 1 minute!