My Love Affair With Ducks...

[WannaBeHillBilly]

They lay 80-100 a year. But they are huge, but you have to catch them before they start setting.

the eggs are firmer than chicken eggs. They are more meaty but they make great pastry.

But they won't lay year round?

 

[duluthralphie]

But they won't lay year round?

No, maybe with lights you could get more.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

No, maybe with lights you could get more.

Which i don't want to do to my birds. - Not even to my dux!
I don't want to squeeze out my animals, they need their break during the winter time.

 

[Mimi13]

Are those at least good fertilizer? (Note to myself: Goslings are super cute, but the grown-ps poop too much!)

Chemically speaking, IDK, but the grass sure is green around the ponds!

 

[Mimi13]

They lay 80-100 a year. But they are huge, but you have to catch them before they start setting.

the eggs are firmer than chicken eggs. They are more meaty but they make great pastry.

Well I know if I can’t give away duck eggs, I’ll be stuck with turkey eggs too! Maybe though if I have a Tom I could sell fertile eggs. I mean, I am NPIP certified.

 

[Mimi13]

Which i don't want to do to my birds. - Not even to my dux!
I don't want to squeeze out my animals, they need their break during the winter time.

Oh come on, squeeze em out, squeeze em out!

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Oh come on, squeeze em out, squeeze em out!

During my travels here in the U.S., i met a hotel-receptionist who immigrated from Honduras and she told me that as a little girl she actually tried to squeeze the egg out of her mom's chickens…

 

[duluthralphie]

Well I know if I can’t give away duck eggs, I’ll be stuck with turkey eggs too! Maybe though if I have a Tom I could sell fertile eggs. I mean, I am NPIP certified.

@memphis used to sell eggs for 3 dollars apiece to a high brow bakery for fancy cakes and stuff.

So there is a market.

Also you better check with you NPIP people, I had to fight like crazy to have chickens and turkeys both. They wanted them in separate coops and not free ranging. It took me a while but I managed to have both.

There are always people on Craigslist looking for turkey eggs to hatch in the spring.

or you just eat them yourself.

 

[duluthralphie]

During my travels here in the U.S., i met a hotel-receptionist who immigrated from Honduras and she told me that as a little girl she actually tried to squeeze the egg out of her mom's chickens…

Poor chickens.... she sounds bright enough to be a future dux collaborator.

 

[Enten4life]

They lay 80-100 a year. But they are huge, but you have to catch them before they start setting.

the eggs are firmer than chicken eggs. They are more meaty but they make great pastry.

Are they firmer like duck eggs are then? I want ALL the birds, so Turkeys are going to happen one day. I just need land