OMG I am so excited !!!!!!

[ProudRedneck]

I am a brand new duck mom as of 6 months ago when I found a 1-2 day old Muscovy in the middle of a road, and now my baby girl has laid her very first egg !!!!!!! More to come later as I am so daggum excited I don't know what to do first. I've texted my Dad, my son, and my step-daughter and now, I'm on here screaming it with excitement to share with yall.

 

[Canadian Wind]

You didn't tell US FIRST?!?

 

[CaliFarmsAR]

Congratulations!!!! That’s so eggciting

 

[ProudRedneck]

You didn't tell US FIRST?!?

I am so sorry but I just got so excited and I wanted to take pictures to post with this announcement but then I got overwhelmed by trying to remember or think of everything and anything I needed to or should document by the time I did those things, I felt like it would be later tonight that I could tell yall and I wanted to let you know as soon as I could (in case any advise could be offered).

 

[ruthhope]

Its so exciting!! My rescued 1-2 day old last year was also a muscovy but he is a drake! I did adopt a female muscovy from avrehabber and she was a good layer!!

Now you need to get a countertop container for her eggs. Don't wash them although you can wipe any debris gently. If you do wash them you have to store them in the refrigerator and they dont store as long

 

[ProudRedneck]

Congratulations!!!! That’s so eggciting

Thank you. I've gone through a really really deep & dark depression and I can't express how much Daffy, along with her beau Daisy has helped me get through it. I am still struggling and trying to not redirect my emotions on unnecessary worries about them but it's been really hard. I hover over them constantly and watch every little thing they do so I can control what I can control if that makes any sense. I feel like I am rambling. Point is, I have struggled with her mating so soon (5 months old) and now, even though I am excited that she has laid her first egg, my worries now shift to....ok she's now going to have more, what if the next one doesn't go smoothly, what if.....what if....what if, to a point, my thoughts end at what if it causes her to die. I just couldn't handle that. I'm sorry that got depressing when I should be focusing on her successful first egg, and her seeming to not have any residual effects from doing so.

I gave her oyster shells over a month ago to make sure she wouldn't have a problem with soft shells, she has a 16-gallon water tub in the run with her in case she needed to soak/relax....and I gave her extra thick bedding in the attached duck house so she could be as comfortable as possible.

 

[ProudRedneck]

 

[ProudRedneck]

Its so exciting!! My rescued 1-2 day old last year was also a muscovy but he is a drake! I did adopt a female muscovy from avrehabber and she was a good layer!!

Now you need to get a countertop container for her eggs. Don't wash them although you can wipe any debris gently. If you do wash them you have to store them in the refrigerator and they dont store as long

I only removed it long enough to weigh it and take a few photos. As emotional as I am right now, I don't know if I'll be able to eat any of her eggs until I know they aren't fertile.

 

[Canadian Wind]

Are you letting her hatch it, or will it be omelette?

Grats, btw! I remember how I felt the first time I found an egg from ours last Spring!

 

[ruthhope]

Hanging out with your ducks should be very theraputic -- not just watching them on a camera, but being in yoru garden and sitting with them. They are such a lovely couple! I hang out with mine every morning and it gives me a boost for the rest of the day.

One of my son's ducks, Mop Head, came on a sleep over and ended up sleeping in my Florida room as my ducks were mean to her. She is such a character and she tried so hard to be friendly. When I saw them excluding her from food in the coop, I brought her straight in and made her a bed in a children's wading pool with pine shavings. She rewarded me with and egg in the morning and I couldn't eat it!! I can eat the eggs when I don't know who has laid them -- at my son's they often all lay in the same nesting box and so even when there are three eggs, we can't be certain who laid which egg. But having an egg that Mop Head laid in my Florida room, no I just couldn't do it!! On another more recent occasion, I was at my son's house sitting and petting Mop Head on his back steps. I had no idea she was doing it, but she laid an egg at my feet. That egg went in the basket on my son's counter top as I couldn't eat it although she laid it for me!