Look what I found today! pic

[4-H chicken mom]

Look what I collected from my BEI's today. The first egg is from one of two females I have that will be two yrs. this spring. They started up laying a few weeks ago. I have some of their eggs in the bator right now. The marbled egg is from another BEI I hatched last year, her first egg. The one in the middle, I thought was it was a pile of poop at first. I have had chickens lay really small eggs on their first few, but not my ducks. I wanted to make sure, Is this normal for a duck's first egg?

 

[Pet Duck Boy]

My pekin just started laying a couple days ago, yesterday she laid two very small eggs like the one in your picture, one was half the size of a chickens egg. And the other was the size of a marble. She was feeling a little off but now she's better today, good luck with your ducks!

 

[10ducks]

I got several tiny eggs when my ducks first started laying. I cracked a couple of them and one had a small yolk and proportional white, and the other was all white. That marbled egg is beautiful!

 

[SoCalChick]

Sorry - I dont know - but I just had to say what beautiful eggs your ducks lay! I wish my chickens laid marbled eggs.

 

[M To The Maxx]

 

[tia]

My new female runner started laying yesterday and I got a marble sized egg, and another one again today. They were soooo tiny. My others gave me small eggs when they first started too. I took them to school and showed my students.. they thought they were pretty cute. I like the marbled one too... pretty cool looking.

 

[duckyfromoz]

What a gorgeous egg....Both of them actually, The colour is fantastic, and the little one so cute.

 

[duckluck]

Good thing they don't all lay marbled eggs like that one...no one would color eggs for Easter then!

Who'd want to mess up that gorgeous color?

 

[sparkles2307]

What kind of duck laid that marbled egg?

 

[bargain]

Our pekings were laying straight on and then stopped today....must be the snow, or maybe I cannot find the egg....Cute little marble egg! You sure it's not another kind of bird????