If you've read more than 1 or 2 of my posts you're familiar with The Quack Pack, my 7 ducks & 3 geese. Quite possibly you've read about Ms Virginia, my sort across the road neighbor who loves hearing them "sing" in the morning.
Well, I saw her fetching in her trash cans this morning and went to chat a bit and make her an offering. I asked if she and her son et many eggs and she answered that they do. To make a short story long I took her a half dozen duck eggs so now they can see and taste why the girls are singing.
I only fetched in 2 duck eggs today when I got in after work and went to feed them but that's fine. 3 duck and 2 goose eggs are about the same as a dozen medium chicken eggs.
By the way a duck egg is about the same size as a "jumbo" chicken egg but the yolk about 1.5 times the size of a chicken egg yolk. My girls are free range, meaning that they aren't confined to a little cage just big enough for them to eat hormone filled feed, crap and lay eggs. The shells are I'd guess twice as thick as chicken eggs so you need to whack them pretty good to crack em open. After I eat an egg I let the shell dry out really bone ass dry then crumble em up and feed the shells back to the Quack Pack for the calcium.
I told Ray, our token Mexican at work that I had more eggs than I could eat and he said I could be like Forrest Gump selling shrimp! Nice idea but I think it would take more than 3 duck and 2 goose hens.
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