silly girl! its 10 degrees out! its not spring time!!

[TheDuckCrew]

The other day i went out to the duck house while it was snowing like CRAZY! you could barely see, it was like a blizzard. i open the pen, first thing i see is an egg. PEPPER! you crazy girl! its like 9 degrees out and snowingggg and she laid an egg! people believed she was a cayuga, but she laid a white egg...
well anyways, there was ANOTHER one today! and the highest the temp got today was around 18 degrees! i cracked open the old one today and left the new one with her, and the old one was fertile! good boy toby! lol
heres some pictures of the egg. also cracked open. the bullseye is somewhat visible in the pictures.

 

[TheDuckCrew]

i have a question, i read that cayugas lay black eggs at the beginning of the season and they eventually fade to white so why is pepper's egg white?? is it the cold that causes the egg coloring to fade because that would explain it. idk im trying to figure out why she's laying eggs when its so cold and theres not much light and her eggs are white...

 

[kdcrws]

my cayuga lays a green egg....

 

[tia]

I am looking at your eggs, and hope that I've been checking mine closely enough. Mine do not appear to be fertile, just a little white mark, but it is not raised from what I can see. I just ordered an adult drake yesterday, so hope that mine aren't fertile. I was thinking that the white part was more pronounced.

 

[Goat_Walker]

My Cayuga lays an almost light orange egg

 

[TheDuckCrew]

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yeah in these pictures, it didn't come out too nicely, and the egg had been sitting for a couple days, so the bullseye faded some.

 

[Ducks-R-Us]

I have one Cayuga that lays a white egg and another that lays a dark brown egg - Mine laid eggs all Fall but have quit for now but I do expect them to start laying again before too long. I had a goose lay an egg today but laid the egg outside - we were not having a snowstorm but it was about 15 below zero so the egg was rock hard.

 

[thedoors5to1]

my runner ducks always continue to lay in the winter, ive even hatched babies out in the middle of january!

 

[akpeeps]

My two girls are each laying an egg a day regardless of temp, and they lay them outside even when it's been well below zero.

I have a couple of dog kennels in the run with straw in them that they use. I've had more frozen eggs than not. They haven't even attempted to lay in the coop.

I told my chickens they were fired since the 2 ducks are laying more eggs than the 8 hens combined.

 

[One Acre Wonder Farm]

How old is Pepper? You are so lucky you got an egg!!!

My girls quit laying with their molt in August/September

This week I resorted to putting a light in their coop and turning it on at 5:30 a.m. in hopes of getting eggs sooner than waiting for the days to lengthen!

Are you going to incubate any eggs? Your ducks would make cute little salt n pepper ducklings I'm sure