My duck started laying early!

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Drowning in feathers!
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Oct 22, 2009
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My duck Moxy is only a bit over 4 months old and already started laying eggs. Just tiny little eggs (I haven't cracked one open to test if there are yolks yet) but since she started 4 days ago, she's laid one a day! She's not just randomly laying them either - she made a nest for herself!

I guess I shouldn't be too surprised - she constantly does things faster than I expected - quacking at 8 days, fully fledged a week or two ahead of her sister, started showing mating behavior at around 12 weeks...

Our other blue runner, Ollie was about 9 months old before she started laying!
 
Here's her first egg next to one of our other duck's egg (Victor's I think, might be Ollie's):

moxyegg.png


I just went to check on them and her sister Norie must have gotten jealous. She stole one of Vinny's eggs and was sitting on it!
 
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