Egg size compared with duck weight

[nao57]

So I had some questions about egg size in relation to duck weight.

When looking at tables of duck breed stats, I found out many breeds eat different amounts of feed. The larger types eat more feed, and sometimes eat about twice as much as some of the smaller breeds. This seems fairly straight forward.

So now its a comparison game where I'm trying to figure out if I want to do ducks only for eggs, or for meat, or meat and eggs. The answer to this would mean different breeds for whatever the best efficiency is though. Like muscovy and peking eat way more feed than runners or khakis.

But do those types and others have the same egg sizes or not? How much difference is there?

If a runner egg was the same size as a peking, then that would help me figure out and come back to the original question of whether or not its important to me to only do eggs, or do meat also? Or if I wanted to avoid slaughter, I could in theory only take out excess drakes, etc.

But again, it seems that I have to figure out what else would be affected by these variables? And how different are egg sizes in breeds?

Thanks for any thoughts on this.

 

[DiYMama540]

I don't really have enough experience with all the different breeds, but as far as eggs go I'm sure there is a bit of variation in size between breeds.
My egg layer is a Runner and the eggs are plenty big! A little bit bigger than an XL chicken egg. Perfect size for eating and cooking in my opinion.

 

[Isaac 0]

https://www.metzerfarms.com/DuckBreedComparisonNew.cfm?affiliate=undef&CustID=25232373

Have you looked at this chart? It shows the average weight in grams for each duck breed.

 

[TomCahalan]

If you are buying locally (fewer options) I would probably go with runners and pekins in your situation. Then cull the runner drakes and all of the pekins except one drake. Now you have runners for eggs, and pekin/runner crosses for meat.

 

[nao57]

Thanks!