/ Register

  1. Check out our Random Pics Page here, or learn more about it here.

Egg size: Welsh Harlequin vs Khaki Campbell

Discussion in 'Ducks' started by billmac, Aug 3, 2014.

Most Liked Posts
  1. Aug 3, 2014 #1
    billmac

    billmac Songster

    104
    0
    119
    Apr 10, 2009
    I have both, but the KC are just beginning their first lay cycle, and the eggs are tiny. I know the eggs will get bigger over time but I don't remember the eggs from my WH being so small at the beginning.

    The WH are supposed to be just a color variation of the KC, but all the descriptions say they are bigger birds. Is this true?
     
  2. Aug 3, 2014 #2
    islandgirl82

    islandgirl82 Songster

    1,426
    302
    198
    Jul 4, 2014
    Maine
    WH were developed from breeding a pair of light colored KCs in the 1940's. It was a mutation. The WH are larger than the KCs although my female was taken by a predator before she began laying so I don't know about the size variations in eggs. I can say that my KCs eggs were the same size as extra large to jumbo sized chicken eggs.
     
  3. Oct 14, 2015 #3
    RobertSwan

    RobertSwan Hatching

    4
    0
    7
    Apr 4, 2015
    Redmond, Wa
    My welshie's eggs were about the size of a chicken egg at first, now significantly larger. So I think the welshies do lay a larger egg at first.
     

BackYard Chickens is proudly sponsored by: