OUR HOMESTEAD - Now Featuring Duck Eggs!
For some time now, we have been raising chickens as a way to provide our own eggs.
Now, though, we have ducks too, since a neighbor gave us some! It took them a while, but they are now laying eggs too!
If you look in the middle of the bottom row in this carton, the two in the center are Muscovy Duck eggs.
Here you can see the size difference a little better.
Just like chicken eggs, duck eggs can be eaten. Also, since we have both female ducks and a male, we should be getting fertile eggs, which means that we can hatch out our own ducklings if we want!
Chores like collecting the eggs every day are indeed chores, but they can also be fun, and the @little-peppers enjoy it!
Have any of you ever eaten duck eggs for food? We tried some, but haven't cooked any of our own yet. @Papa-pepper hopes to hatch some soon so that we can have more ducks. If we do, we will keep you posted!
Here is a photo of the ducks.
To check out a post about them, click here.
UPVOTE-FOLLOW-RESTEEM
It is interesting, to produce own chicken and duck eggs. Nice posting !
Awesome post!! I'll take one dozen duck eggs please.
Those adorable little peppers love to work the farm, that's just precious!!
Hi @little-peppers those ducks are really giving you BIG eggs. I just ate two chicken eggs but if I had one of your BIG duck eggs that would have been enough. Thanks for the pictures with the BIG smile too!
It's an Easter hunt for eggs every day for you @little-peppers! I hope you have some cute little Muscovy ducks soon!
I had my first duck egg a few weeks ago, I wasnt very keen as they taste a lot creamier than normal eggs. :)
I vote for ducklings. If you start a batch soon, maybe they'll be hatched before our next visit. We love you.
As it turns out, Muscovies can take just over 30 days to hatch... so we got some started!
This post has been ranked within the top 50 most undervalued posts in the first half of Apr 19. We estimate that this post is undervalued by $1.73 as compared to a scenario in which every voter had an equal say.
See the full rankings and details in The Daily Tribune: Apr 19 - Part I. You can also read about some of our methodology, data analysis and technical details in our initial post.
If you are the author and would prefer not to receive these comments, simply reply "Stop" to this comment.