I found my duck sitting peculiarly today. Quackers was in the zoned out stage which my chickens do when they lay eggs... hmmm
And so I see beneath her a zillion eggs. Quackers is officially for the record a girl!!! I thought She was a boy, a few months back, after seeing her chase off and nip one of Craig and Diane's cats then strut back like a hero.
And so I see beneath her a zillion eggs. Quackers is officially for the record a girl!!! I thought She was a boy, a few months back, after seeing her chase off and nip one of Craig and Diane's cats then strut back like a hero.I only had to throw out 5 all these are good. 
It turns out that duck eggs are nearly identical to my chicken eggs and ducks make good mothers. She was sharing her nest with Cronk (Green eggs) and protecting both sets of eggs. Here's a funny fact: the ducks eggs are the only white eggs out of all the laying animals in my backyard... go figure!
It turns out that duck eggs are nearly identical to my chicken eggs and ducks make good mothers. She was sharing her nest with Cronk (Green eggs) and protecting both sets of eggs. Here's a funny fact: the ducks eggs are the only white eggs out of all the laying animals in my backyard... go figure!
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So, do duck eggs taste like chicken eggs?
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have Caramel and Cocoa been laying eggs yet? I hope they are both girls.
ok-so the un-farm girl asks...
what makes an egg a bad egg? why would you have to throw 5 out? and were they thrown at passing cars?
(on a side note-great grandpa hollis used to call people a 'good egg'. i miss him...)
How cool the duck is a girl! and whoa can she lay eggs. I am also curious as to how you tell if an egg is bad.
So eggs are funny things. Just like fruit they go bad. Good just means they are still viable either for food or for a baby chick to hatch from. Bad eggs are just ones that have gone rotten. When they go rotten it STINKS because bacteria slowly creates sulfuric gasses. How long they last (good) depends upon temperature. Outside in Az heat they last typically 2 days in the shade. They can last a week on the kitchen counter probably longer. In the fridge they can nearly last forever depending on how good they were when gathered. Most store bought ones will actually stay good for so long that the shell it self begins to fail and starts to look like the egg got speckled with oil.
~And how do we tell whats what? –
Bad eggs float in water, good eggs sink.
No cars were harmed in the making of our breakfast. ;-)
Depending on how bad they are, we just feed them back to the chickens. Don’t look at eggs like embryos, they are more like cows milk. Eggs are just baby chicken food. Even the shell is nutritious. We try not to show the chickens the intact egg when we feed them back because the chickens can get wise and just start eating their own eggs after they lay them. None of our eggs are fertilized embryos because there is no rooster.
The silliest myth is that chickens don’t lay with out a rooster. Not true. I always say do women stop having periods because they are single? uh we wish…
Carmel and cocoa have not yet layed an egg as far as I know.
And now you know way more than you ever wanted to know about chicken eggs.
Ok, WOW had no idea you actually have ducks...and chickens..you are the queen of Food Storage, I will never be like you, I can hardly get along with my dogs...LOL!
two things: are duck eggs edible? You have used that picture before Sheesh can't some up with anythiing creative huh?! ;-) EC
eggs from most foul are edible, I once went to Rodizios and was served tiny boiled quail eggs. They were good. I just made cookies from duck eggs last night, they were good.
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