Duck Eggs

   February 26th brought a surprise - our first duck eggs.  I was churning the bedding after letting the ladies out of their coop, and my pitchfork scooped up an egg.  One of the little hens had buried her treasure.  In fact, the other ducks like to bury them, too.  So the past few mornings I've been up to my knees in pine shavings trying to dig up eggs.  Two hens are currently laying, and I am patiently waiting for the other two to start. 

One of our hens was laying two eggs at a time at first.  But then
she regulated and went down to one egg a day. 

Blackish egg from our black Cayuga duck.  

One of my egg collecting helpers.  

Black Cayuga Egg