[Kate and her Ducks]

Ellie, My best layer of last year has had a bit of a slow start this year and I was sterting to wonder if she had used up all her eggs last year as she laid into Dec. I can tell her eggs from the others as they are tinted olive green, fading through the season as she is half Cayuga.

This morning I came down to find this!



I'm very proud of her!

[joyfull]

oh wow Kate, that is simply stunning 

[scabs]

Wow!

[Chrysalis]

Cor!  What a fab thing....  Thanks for sharing that.

[evie2]

  :blink:   interesting, very interesting

[Junie]

That is stunning - she has been saving the paint over the winter!

[Kate and her Ducks]

  Certainly looks that way!

I'm curious to see how quickly they fade over the season.
The funny thing is that as with many black ducks, Cayugas ducks (and presumably hybrids) get white feathers as they age. Ellie was almost entirely black with just a few white feathers on her bib last year. After her winter moult she had developed white feathers speckled all the way over her. It's almost like the paint is coming out of her and onto the eggs! At this rate she will be completely white by next year.

[pigeonpie]

It certainly saves having to boil them up with crepe paper like we used to do as kids to make the shells funky colours.

[ManicMum]

Maybe it was l;aid so fast it got scorched on the way out!!

[LittleRedHen]

I have NEVER seen an egg like this!  Wow!  Knock my sock off!

[Hayley'sHens]

Wow! Im very jealous.... Its beautiful Kate, Well done Ellie   

[andreadon]

 

wow! 

[Aunt Sally]

I think she used a little too much paint on that one Kate 

[Kate and her Ducks]

Ellie's eggs have already faded quite a bit. The first three are some of hers from the last week or so and the one on the end is one of the other girls to show the comparison.

[joyfull]

wonder why they change their egg colour like their feather colouring changes too.