First egg!

[Hattiegun]

I got my first egg a week ago !!! from my itty bitty call... I was even there when she laid it and saw it pop out..LOL anyway I feed 15% grower and set out a bowl of oyster shell as I have 2 boys and 2 girls... she really chows it down.. she has laid an egg everyday but I didnt see one today??! The eggs seem perfect and the shells are hard.. they also get to free range all day and they get lettuce,peas,corn and tomatoes everynite for treats.

 

[Amiga]

Hattiegun, she is a cutie!

 

[Hattiegun]

Thanks AMIGA I think so

got her from DuckLuck

 

[GMT]

My ducks dropped their first egg yesterday, and I got them as hatchlings from Metzer back in April. They dropped two more this morning. Only one in the nest areas I built into their house though. The other two . . . they seem to have dropped them wherever the urge struck. I'm trying more straw and golf balls in the boxes in a bid to get them to start laying eggs where I don't have to crawl into their house to get 'em.

I'm quite pleased, having never done anything like this before.

 

[Amiga]

Welcome, GMT, and blessings on you and your ducks!

 

[Bryanccfshr]

Last night when I got home I found 3 more eggs. One had a shell and was in the pool. The other two were just membrane, no shell. I cleaned them up, and broke them up and shared the three eggs with my dogs. THe insides are perfect and I am now keeping the layer feed.

Here are the pics.

The first egg next toa large chicken egg

THe first egg (lower left), The egg from the pool (upper left), THe two shell less eggs on the top THe little one probably from a runner.

Ready to scramble.

 

[Amiga]

Bryanccfshr,

Thanks for the photo's!

The first six weeks or so, we had a few eggs without shells each week. Some popped out while the ducks were playing hop on top.

But we have only had one without shell the last two weeks now.

 

[Bryanccfshr]

Mine have dug a nest in the hay that's in their shelter house and they have place the 4 decoy golf balls in the nest. I am hoping they learn to use it.

 

[HiddenHill Heretic]

I have been getting eggs in some pretty random spots the last few days. I found a couple of free Dogloos (now Duckloo) on CL, and they have begun to take to them. Nonetheless, the eggs are around the run, in the pen, hidden in the straw, and under the feeder. My chickens are pretty religious about box laying. Maybe not so much with the ducks. As this is the first week I am getting duck eggs, I have begun to include 2 in each chicken egg dozen. The response from virgin duck egg eaters has been enthusiastically positive. Yay for duck eggs!!!