Ok, I posted a few weeks ago about rescuing the 2 drakes from hubby co-worker.
Well, long story short.... we ended up trading them for 3 Muscovy hens which is what we wanted anyways AND they get to spend their life on a farm, servicing MANY hens!
So, we have had these 3 beautiful Muscovy hens for about 3 weeks now. They are 10 mo. old and farmer claimed they were laying. No eggs for us up til now.
Yesterday, in the bottom of the chicken house I found an egg when I opened them up in the morning. Well formed and not the color of ANY of our chicken eggs. It was more cream or a funky off-white with some spots on it.... which could have been because it was sitting on bottom of dirty coop. Our chickens lay definitely brown eggs, whether light brown to chocolate...... they never have laid anything this pale.
Went out today and found another egg. Bottom of house and looks like one from yesterday, cream color.
I thought that Muscovy eggs were white and I guess when I read that... I assumed WHITE like store-bought chicken egg white.
So, could this be a duck egg?
The girls sleep on coop floor instead of roosting right now and once Spring and decent weather hits.... hubby is making them a seperate spot to sleep and nest if they want without being right under the roosting chickens.
I went online and googled Muscovy eggs images and I saw white eggs, cream eggs and some that look a lot like mine.
Well, long story short.... we ended up trading them for 3 Muscovy hens which is what we wanted anyways AND they get to spend their life on a farm, servicing MANY hens!
So, we have had these 3 beautiful Muscovy hens for about 3 weeks now. They are 10 mo. old and farmer claimed they were laying. No eggs for us up til now.
Yesterday, in the bottom of the chicken house I found an egg when I opened them up in the morning. Well formed and not the color of ANY of our chicken eggs. It was more cream or a funky off-white with some spots on it.... which could have been because it was sitting on bottom of dirty coop. Our chickens lay definitely brown eggs, whether light brown to chocolate...... they never have laid anything this pale.
Went out today and found another egg. Bottom of house and looks like one from yesterday, cream color.
I thought that Muscovy eggs were white and I guess when I read that... I assumed WHITE like store-bought chicken egg white.
So, could this be a duck egg?
The girls sleep on coop floor instead of roosting right now and once Spring and decent weather hits.... hubby is making them a seperate spot to sleep and nest if they want without being right under the roosting chickens.
I went online and googled Muscovy eggs images and I saw white eggs, cream eggs and some that look a lot like mine.
