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YAY i wanna see baby pics when hatched!

I'm going to ask questions - don't laugh at me, I know nothing about ducks. :-/

Did Agnes just lay one egg? Do they only lay one egg at a time?
Is the egg for eating or hatching? If hatching, how long will it take?
Do all your ducks have names? Are they a particular kind of duck?

Thank you. I'm a curious person (or nosey if you prefer!) :)

OOhhh i didnt know you were eating them lol ; is the taste different than chicken eggs?

Ducks lay one egg a day and they are richer than chickens but they are soooo good! But I've found people who won't touch duck eggs because they said they taste weird so I think it's more of an acquired taste... I only have one laying hen who is a Pekin and she lays her eggs religiously between 6am-8pm and they are massive so if anything I'm cooking requires two large eggs, I just use one duck egg. The largest one she's laid was almost 4oz but she typically lays around 3.6 and 3.8oz eggs

More like a egg taste and I heard they are much more nutrient holding

Agnes egg is 3.3oz

Actually no, you don’t need a rooster.

Yes you do not need a rooster to get eggs, anyone who keeps a rooster it's either for breeding or flock protection... My rooster starts crowing around 4am... But my ducks are quiet till I let them out and then they go ham in their pools... That's another necessity, without water they can't evenly distributed the oils on their feathers so they end up with wet feather which causes thermoregulation and buoyancy issues.. I rescued two Call ducks from the auction back in January, it took over half the year to treat their wet feather.. my Call duck hen absolutely hates my husband :))
Anytime he touches her she starts screaming and trying to bite him but she's so tiny, she can't cause any real harm

Speaking of roosters crowing:

The therapeutic riding program I volunteer with keeps some chickens, and at one point we had a Bantam rooster and a Barred Plymouth Rock rooster that would have crowing contests. The Bantam's crow was quite high pitched and the Plymouth Rock's crow was much lower in pitch. We also had a dog.

At any time of day, the Bantie would crow: rrrrr. The Plymouth Rock would respond: RRRRR. The dog would chime in: Owoooo. Then the sequence would repeat. They kept it up for a while and then there would be silence. It always made me laugh to listen to them.