My first Duck eggs are strange

[PlumTuckered]

My 5 Pekins normally run straight for the pond from their night pen every morning. The last three mornings they didn't, they hung around the yard, hung around the outside of the their night pen and even played out in the pasture and headed for the pond around 10 a.m. This evening I went out to feed the horses, chickens and ducks and there are my ducks, in their night pen already, they don't usually go to the pen till I call them for supper. While in there talking to them I found 2 eggs, the eggs are the size of a good sized chicken egg and have a faint green tint to them. My ducks are Jumbo Pekins...I;m stunned. My chickens can't get into the duck pen and I only have white and brown egg layers right now so I really don't think it's my chickens. Shoot my laying chickens are 3 years old, I KNOW these aren't their eggs LOL Is it possible the duck eggs are small because they are the first ones layed? The color has me so stumped, I always thought Pekins layed white eggs.

Michelle

 

[FenDruadin]

Yup--the color AND the size are because they are early eggs. Mine laid some really bizarre things their first season. I had one egg that had a membrane but no shell. Another that was teeny tiny and perfectly round and ended up containing nothing but a yolk (wish I'd saved that one--it was cool). Several double yolked eggs. And many that were a gorgeous uniform green color (can you say: green eggs and ham?). But the eggs are now mostly white, duck-egg-sized, and uniform in shape (that is, each hen seems to have her own particular shape she lays consistently, but they are not all the same shape).

Don't worry! They'll get more consistent in time.

 

[PlumTuckered]

Thank you so much! My mind will rest easy now LOL I practically danced all the way to the house when I found the eggs, I wasn't expecting their first eggs for a few more weeks (the feed store couldn't remember the ducks' exact age when I bought them). Would it be foolish of me to try hatching any of their first eggs in my 'bator?

Michelle

 

[duck walk]

my two older Pekin girls started laying last week...five eggs so far...three were in the yard and looked like they had played kick ball with them...pale green and sort of long and skinny...there were two in the nest today...large chicken size, pale green, a little less long and skinny...they will get better at it in time...it is hilarious when the girls are in the nest, which is a fifty gallon drum...all of the other ducks stand outside and yell funky noises at her the entire time she is in there...I don't know how she can focus on laying with all the trash talk outside the barrel...they are just the funniest critters on the place...

 

[headred]

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Agree on the trash talk and how funny they are. My pekin just layed her first egg yesterday, small and off white. Looks like my khaki eggs, but smaller. Surprising so small cause my pekin is such a big girl!!

 

[rlhbond]

My Rouen duck layed her first two eggs Thursday and Friday. They were tasty with bacon this morning.

 

[PlumTuckered]

Congrats on your first eggs Gals!! My husband ate duck eggs all through his childhood and he took one look and said "those can't be duck eggs, they're too small" LOL I'm so proud of my girls I'm going to rig up a nest for them, they layed the eggs right out in the corner of their pen near their favorite mud patch! I figured they'd lay them in the duck house.

Michelle