What color eggs do muscovy ducks lay?

[luvchicks8]

Thanks everyone I will keep looking, they are mating ALOT now

 

[Silkie Sue]

i know what you mean
Chuck the duck has been gettin alot of action and my white Muscovy hen ( Ivy) has been sittin on 5 eggs for 3 days now...
how long til duck eggs hatch?
i've been preoccupied with chicks hatching....
something new to obcess over

 

[luvchicks8]

I was told 28-30 days but mine have yet to lay.

 

[satay]

Muscoveys take 35 days to hatch.

 

[NotAFarm]

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Is Chuck the duck a Muscovy? I've read that Muscovy/Mallard Derivative crosses may hatch between the 28 and 35 day periods.

 

[Silkie Sue]

yes Chuck is Muscovy
here is a pic

his girlfriends are Ivy (white)
Daisy (Buff and white)
and Daffy (grey and white)

 

[NotAFarm]

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He is so handsome!! What beautiful ducklings you'll have!!

 

[Silkie Sue]

he thinks he is " all that and a bag of chips"
i acquired him a few months ago and his tail has not stopped waggin since he got here....
the ladies seem pretty impressed too...

 

[Caprice_Acres]

My girl that's laying now lays a definete green egg - Maybe more like a light olive color, but very distinctive. Super easy to tell those apart from my Welsh Harlequin eggs.

Usually early in the season the first eggs will be greenish, fading lighter as the season progresses. Usually an off-white khaki color.

As for the first 10 not being fertile - that's never been an issue here. Many of my first time layers have started nests of 18+ eggs and hatch all of them. I find 'scovies don't lay an egg a day unless they're going to go broody. If I take eggs away from their nests they either hide their nest better or stop laying.

 

[emsdial911]

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Isn't that funny? They are like puppy dogs the way they wag their tails all the time.