Show off your house ducks!

[Julie Birb]

By the time bacon appears in duck eggs Tevye will have mastered duckie cloning... problem solved...

And I can have a Tevye of my own.

It's Thanksgiving. Are your bitty webs pipping? Weeeeeee.

 

[LittleLakePhil]

Yes, because they are carnivorous little poopers.  And my only dependents.  

Do you claim them on your taxes?

 

[Tevyes Dad]

Can a duck carry more than one egg at a time? If so, how many? Also, Happy Thanksgiving! I hope all of you have a blessed day filled with good food and loving family

It depends on how big of a basket they have on their backs...

Seriously, I believe the answer is yes. The internal areas where the egg develops are independent of each other so in theory at a given point, the limit would be three without them being combined, but since the shell at the end of the line takes the longest amount of time, the prior eggs would probably combine and would probably fail to fully form so you would have some kind of failure. i.e. Egg #2 is ready for shelling so Egg #1 pops out shell-less and Egg #3 just ends up being yolky slimy poop. Some of these failures could be harmful to the duck and some would just be abnormal eggs. But when a duck lays two good eggs in a day, they were developed in an overlapping time frame - for 2 good eggs, the second ova is probably released when the first egg is about half way through its shelling process.

Now here is an interesting thing I learned recently: I am sure it is true for chickens, so maybe also true for ducks - i don't know. When they hatch, all their ova are already in them and they release them over their lifetime. So chicks don't come from their mother, they are formed with their mother, their mother only develops them and mixes the DNA with their father's.

But take all this with a grain of salt, I can't even figure out how to cause the bacon to be formed inside the egg

 

[Tevyes Dad]

Do you claim them on your taxes?

If I could figure out how to do that, I would triple their meal worms!!!

 

[Miss Lydia]

It depends on how big of a basket they have on their backs...

Seriously, I believe the answer is yes. The internal areas where the egg develops are independent of each other so in theory at a given point, the limit would be three without them being combined, but since the shell at the end of the line takes the longest amount of time, the prior eggs would probably combine and would probably fail to fully form so you would have some kind of failure. i.e. Egg #2 is ready for shelling so Egg #1 pops out shell-less and Egg #3 just ends up being yolky slimy poop. Some of these failures could be harmful to the duck and some would just be abnormal eggs. But when a duck lays two good eggs in a day, they were developed in an overlapping time frame - for 2 good eggs, the second ova is probably released when the first egg is about half way through its shelling process.

Now here is an interesting thing I learned recently: I am sure it is true for chickens, so maybe also true for ducks - i don't know. When they hatch, all their ova are already in them and they release them over their lifetime. So chicks don't come from their mother, they are formed with their mother, their mother only develops them and mixes the DNA with their father's.

But take all this with a grain of salt, I can't even figure out how to cause the bacon to be formed inside the egg

Smart guy like you? you gotta be kidding.

 

[Julie Birb]

Do you claim them on your taxes?

I should considering I provide a heated downstairs for them, food, bedding, wicker nest. All that costs money and needs to be taken into consideration. Do then need social security numbers?

 

[LittleLakePhil]

It depends on how big of a basket they have on their backs...
My duck layed two good eggs once I thought it was strange...

Seriously, I believe the answer is yes.  The internal areas where the egg develops are independent of each other so in theory at a given point, the limit would be three without them being combined, but since the shell at the end of the line takes the longest amount of time, the prior eggs would probably combine and would probably fail to fully form so you would have some kind of failure.  i.e.  Egg #2 is ready for shelling so Egg #1 pops out shell-less and  Egg #3 just ends up being yolky slimy poop.  Some of these failures could be harmful to the duck and some would just be abnormal eggs.  But when a duck lays two good eggs in a day, they were developed in an overlapping time frame - for 2 good eggs, the second ova is probably released when the first egg is about half way through its shelling process.

Now here is an interesting thing I learned recently: I am sure it is true for chickens, so maybe also true for ducks - i don't know.  When they hatch, all their ova are already in them and they release them over their lifetime.  So chicks don't come from their mother, they are formed with their mother, their mother only develops them and mixes the DNA with their father's.

But take all this with a grain of salt, I can't even figure out how to cause the bacon to be formed inside the egg

 

[LittleLakePhil]

I had a duck lay two eggs once....I thought it was strange.

 

[Miss Lydia]

I had a duck lay two eggs once....I thought it was strange.

Phil I love your avatar, is that you and your fish?

 

[MagpieDucks]

12 ducks with diapers to change every 3 hours works out to 1 diaper every 15 minutes. 12 baths/day @ about 1/2 hour per ( includes filling, bathing and draining) 1 laundry load of diapers per day. 6 accidents / day to clean up after. Normal duck chores I already do...

I am going to guess 12-16 hrs. / day plus actual quality time spent with 12 ducks individually. So lets call it 24-30 hrs per day total.

Fortunately there are two of us so if 8 hrs/day are spent sleeping and doing things for us, we have about 32 hours / day to spare.

The only problem I can see is we would have to give up our jobs. Since they are our sole source of income, we would have a hard time buying treats for the ducks

So if all of you out in cyberland can send us bunches of money, I will put it in an investment. Once it gets large enough to reliably replace both our jobs, I will get with @kukupecpec and see about getting 48 sets of monogrammed diapers.

Yeah I guess didn't think about that. Wait, i know you could build a full size house with non carpeted floors and put the ducks in there so then you can still have house ducks!