Hey guys!
Our Peking duck finally started laying today (2 eggs!) and this is my first time dealing with duck eggs. Are they supposed to have a dirty film covering the egg? Our duck lives with our chickens and we just wanna make sure the eggs are the ducks and not from a sick hen. They're definitely a little longer in shape and bright white under the waxy film, unlike the barred rock's eggs which are brown with no coating.
Thanks! You guys rock!
Sean Kelly
Yeah, thats normal-but fair warning, if you decide to eat them they taste like mud
Quote from: VolunteerK9 on October 22, 2011, 08:45:21 PM
Yeah, thats normal-but fair warning, if you decide to eat them they taste like mud
Most definitely do not taste like mud. So far she's laid almost a dozen and I've been having either a fried or hard boiled every morning. We even made brownies with one a couple weeks ago which turned out fantastic. They taste just like a chicken egg, but with a little more yolk and quite a bit richer. I'm liking duck eggs almost more than chicken eggs now. Might have to buy a few more ducklings come springtime!
Sean Kelly
Actually they taste like duck eggs... oddly enough... but the coating will protect the egg, so I leave it on.
I'm thinking like M.B. on this one. Sounds like it could just be the bloom you are seeing?
...JP
Never had any that tasted like mud. Duck eggs are often used in upscale bakeries in place of chicken eggs. Have you notices the difference in yolk? I have mallards and the yolk is much thicker from their eggs than the ones from my chickens.
I must have had some mud eating ducks then-I didnt care for the taste at all.
Duck eggs definitely do not taste like chicken eggs.
I've eaten duck eggs from my friend Jordan. I really like them! I find them similar to my hen's eggs but richer in taste. I hear that duck eggs make fantastic mayonnaise.
...JP
when I was young my mother had geese and would get eggs from them. I remember relatives coming for the weekend and mom cooking breakfast. She asked my uncle how many eggs? He said 2 over easy. She brought them out to him on 2 plates. The look on his face was great
The duck eggs I've tried weren't bad in taste, but it was the texture that got to me. Rubbery. Maybe I prepared them wrong? Are there better ways than others? Or maybe it was the ducks, I had Indian Runners at the time.
Quote from: AliciaH on November 02, 2011, 03:22:13 PM... The duck eggs I've tried were... Rubbery...
:-D AliciaH, you make soooooooo... easy. I've seen rubber chickens, even had one, but the last time I saw a rubber duck was on Groucho Marks' TV show "You Bet Your Life." If you don't get it ask someone older, maybe much older. :-D 1955 Groucho Marx DeSoto COMPLETE TV SHOW 1 of 4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQODIqk2BdU#noexternalembed)
Outside of carnival games I thought that the rubber duck was as extinct as the Plymouth and DeSota automobiles Groucho pitched.
Our duck eggs stay a bit stained, too. I really can't tell the difference in taste between duck, chicken and turkey eggs, but they definitely shell out differently and have varied textures!