How many duck eggs did you get today?

[Texag87]

I hope your dog doesn’t use that tactic again and another flies over.

That is why I am not overly concerned. The only other duck that can fly is totally wrapped up in being broody. She only comes out of the coop in the morning and when I gather eggs in the evening. 4 eggs today. Lowest total since January.

 

[Miss Lydia]

2

 

[Supercow]

Got 3 regular eggs and 3 boing boing eggs. You know, the soft shell rubbery ones.

There are 5 Khakis definitely of laying age (about to be 6 months old) + 3 younger ones of which the eldest might have contributed one of the boings since 3+3 amounts to more than 5

As they gain age and experience the ducks move from development to production (yes I'm in IT) in that the eggs have solid shells and are laid in the morning. Before that, it's experimental - the shell is often soft and the egg appears at any odd time during the day, even in the evening.

We'll see what happens tomorrow. At the moment I'm just happy that it seems the daily baseline of good fully formed, laid-on-schedule eggs has been uppped from 2 to 3 in the last few days. When we get to 4-5 eggs reliably per day that's it, we're golden. Any surplus goes to neighbors, family etc.

 

[Miss Lydia]

4

 

[Canadian Wind]

Can't wait for mine to start laying again. I miss duck eggs. Chicken eggs are fine, but my gut doesn't like them!

 

[Texag87]

5. Also I had to throw out two eggs from my young broody and one from the old. The looked like they were about to explode. Only three left between them and 13 days to go.

 

[Texag87]

6

 

[Miss Lydia]

3

 

[Texag87]

6 yesterday . I gathered eggs after work and two hours later one of the semi broodys dropped an egg in her "nest" outside the coop.

 

[Miss Lydia]

2