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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: poppy on October 22, 2009, 09:53:47 am

Title: Duck eggs
Post by: poppy on October 22, 2009, 09:53:47 am

Hi all,

My khaki campbells have started laying and I'm very excited. Just a quick question, how long will the eggs keep for and should they be refridgerated or not?

 :)

Poppy

Title: Re: Duck eggs
Post by: jameslindsay on October 22, 2009, 10:03:32 am

I think it is personal choice whether you refrigerate eggs or not. My Kakhi Campbells are great layers. If you remember that that the eggs you buy in a supermarket can be upto 5 months old by the time they are eaten so hopefully this answers your question.

Title: Re: Duck eggs
Post by: daniellestocks on October 22, 2009, 10:49:06 am

OMG, five months! I never knew that? You learn something new on here every day! I will soon be a fountain of knowledge, lol

Title: Re: Duck eggs
Post by: jameslindsay on October 22, 2009, 10:51:20 am

Yeah, longer even if I remember. I was told that at Easter you can be eating an egg laid before Christmas.

Title: Re: Duck eggs
Post by: gavo on October 22, 2009, 01:18:02 pm

Personally we never put eggs in the fridge it affects their texture, they tend to go a bit rubbery.Just store them in a ceramic dish.They should last you weeks but ours always get eaten very quickly almost straight out of the duck.

Title: Re: Duck eggs
Post by: doganjo on October 22, 2009, 03:59:18 pm

I don't keep mine in the fridge either. Put them straight in cardboard egg boxes, then they get sold pretty quickly so are never older than a few days.  I write the date on them in pencil.