What colour eggs does your Cayuga/Pekin lay?

[Emelyn]

She really does look like your older girls, I can understand why you thought that.

I forgot to mention that those ducks weren't mine they are from a google image search. Although I DO have 10 month old Cayugas

 

[Newfowler1]

My Cayuga ducks lay a grayish tinted egg and that testa layer or what I’ve heard as a cuticle is a waxy layer. It’s easily scrubbed off to reveal a white egg. They tent to be a medium sized duck egg, still bigger than a chicken egg. 2 of my girls are probably not pure breed but mixed. I do have one who has developed white feathers speckling her body. She is definitely purebred and I think it’s a little odd. I thought it was from being plucked a bit too much by a drake but the feathers are more on her sides. I’ve read this does happen with layers, not sure why.
More on the eggs:
I don’t know if the gals started laying for 6months or more but that could have been the late hatch and early darker days.
Seems as though the first few eggs they lay are a dark charcoal and black color and lighten within a few lays to that light pale grey. I’ve had 6 Cayuga ducks, I rehomed the drake and wish I had kept him. He was so sweet and gentle compared to the last 2 Welsh Horndogs I’ve had. I am waiting to rehome the Welsh Drake, I’d do so w/ a female but he is too much for just one girl.

 

[DabblinDuckDabbler]

Mine has only ever laid barely grey eggs. Here’s two of hers (the one with the cat and flowers and the one with blue and pink) that I blew for a Mother’s Day project for my mum. I was a little sad when she first started laying and they didn’t come out charcoal grey, but I loved how the ones for my mum turned out.
Mine also has white speckling on her shoulders now, whereas she was all black when I got her as a baby. Kinda thought for a minute that she had Swedish black genes, but it seems to be a thing with Cayugas. I so love the breed. They’re such cool, strikingly beautiful birds, and so much personality. Pic 2 is her and her husband, and pic 3 is her as a baby.

 

[Newfowler1]

My Cayuga had some white feathers appear the second or third year I had her. Sadly I just lost her to an illness TBD when necropsy results come back. Pained me to have the vet euthanize her but too many unknowns and her condition was poor, I didn’t want to risk the flock or prolong her suffering.

I think Cayugas are darned near the best little guys, always good layers, gentle, sweet and quiet.