Need to KNOW what kind of duck ....

[Mommysongbird]

Mallards don't lay white eggs, they lay green eggs.
You can also get green eggs from runners, cayugas, anconas, buffs, rouens (not often but possible)
If the mallards are a lot smaller than the pekins, and can fly, then they are most likely mallards. If they can't fly and are about the same size as the pekins, then they are most likely rouens. They are easily mistaken as ducklings

Okay, well they are deffinetly (sp?) mallards.

Our mallard, one of them, just laid her first egg today. Now I just have to figure out which one and I have to figure out if the Pekin is laying or the Khaki Campbell is laying.

One white/cream color egg we got the other day was very long, about 2 inches under the coop. But we had been getting these kind of eggs for a few weeks, but they were being laid in the coop (the big one) but one of my hens is broody so figured that is why the duck (pekin or khaki) is laying under the small coop now???

But anyway, thanks.

 

[learycow]

Sometimes the eggs are mis-shapen, soft, or odd-ball for the first few months of laying while their system sorts out the laying cycle. So strange eggs can be expected

One way to tell who is laying is to separate them (or simply put one in a dog crate for a night). They generally lay early in the morning (from 5-7 I've found with most of mine) so they don't need to be separated long. That will tell you who is laying and who isn't

 

[Mommysongbird]

Sometimes the eggs are mis-shapen, soft, or odd-ball for the first few months of laying while their system sorts out the laying cycle. So strange eggs can be expected

One way to tell who is laying is to separate them (or simply put one in a dog crate for a night). They generally lay early in the morning (from 5-7 I've found with most of mine) so they don't need to be separated long. That will tell you who is laying and who isn't

I have some crates that we are going to clean out (I found them at the dump and they use to be used for birds) with bleach and then let them sit. I am going to put these in one of the pens to see if the duck will start using them to lay in.

 

[Apyl]

I have mallards and have always gotten green eggs from my girls.

 

[learycow]

I have some crates that we are going to clean out (I found them at the dump and they use to be used for birds) with bleach and then let them sit. I am going to put these in one of the pens to see if the duck will start using them to lay in.

I use things like that as well as cat carriers that I got for free. I put hay in mine and most of my girls will lay in them. They like dark, "safe" feeling places (though you will usually get one that refuses to use them and will lay outside on the ground, directly in front of your coop door so you step on it, or in the waterer etc, haha)