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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: Womble on March 28, 2019, 10:49:45 pm

Title: Duck egg colours
Post by: Womble on March 28, 2019, 10:49:45 pm

We have four female ducks, plus Bill, who is definitely male.


Yesterday I collected three blue eggs plus one white one.


This morning, I collected three white eggs plus one blue one.


Can anybody explain what the hell is going on!?  ???

Title: Re: Duck egg colours
Post by: doganjo on March 30, 2019, 09:57:53 pm

Bill isn't? :innocent:  or you have a cuckoo  :excited: :excited: :excited:

Title: Re: Duck egg colours
Post by: Womble on March 31, 2019, 09:09:22 am

Well if Bill is  :innocent: , it's pretty difficult to explain last year's ducklings!


So, cuckoo eggs for breakfast again then?  Yum!  :yum:

Title: Re: Duck egg colours
Post by: Backinwellies on March 31, 2019, 10:40:17 am

 :excited:  love things like this ….. great mystery ….. nature is such fun :) …

… Oh and don't forget Bill may have been a male last year …………. but ducks cam change sex (and no I didn't know that until a couple of weeks ago when my friends duck went from female to male!!)

Title: Re: Duck egg colours
Post by: doganjo on April 03, 2019, 12:51:52 pm

I was just going to say that. I've had both a duck and a chicken that have changed sex