how to tell which duck laid egg?

[Duck mommy 2019]

Do you mean that for quite a while you've been getting one egg each day, and now you're getting 2? In that case, the new egg comes from the new layer.

Or that both ducks are new to you, and you're getting one egg but not sure who is laying it?

Putting them in separate pens for a day or two can certainly sort it out.

With chickens, you can tell who's laying by looking at their vents. Does it work with ducks, too? The males are certainly not laying any eggs, so you could look at them for an example of a not-layer, then see if either female looks different. With chickens, a male or not-layer has a small puckered vent, while a layer has a vent that is larger, looks more moist, and looks stretchy. I think of it as, "could an egg possibly come out of that vent?"

i’ve had them both their whole lives. this egg looked a lot like what my other girls first egg did

 

[KaleIAm]

We have twelve hen Ducks and four Isa Brown hens who all have started laying eggs in the same coop. I am pretty sure I know where the dark brown eggs are coming from!

Exactly. Just like I knew where the black/grey egg was coming from.

But do you know which brown hen lays which brown egg?

 

[NatJ]

i’ve had them both their whole lives. this egg looked a lot like what my other girls first egg did

Then they might end up laying matching eggs. Which is frustrating when you want to tell them apart!

 

[416bigbore]

Exactly. Just like I knew where the black/grey egg was coming from.

But do you know which brown hen lays which brown egg?

A matter of fact I do, LOL I put little different colored small zip ties on three of their right legs and when I go out in the morning their is one or two eggs in the boxes already and the other two jump up shortly after and do their thing.

Now the Ducks is another story, I am convinced they lay at night unlike the chickens. I find the duck eggs all over and never in the same place twice unlike the chickens.

 

[416bigbore]

This is what I have been picking up each day in the Coop. First time around layers, from the twelve hens. Maybe a picture of Colonel Sanders in the Coop for inspiration will increase the egg count in the morning.