What did I find today? Our first ever fairy duck egg.
It's so tiny. Smaller than a bantam egg.
(They are also, God help me, known in this country as "fart eggs". I am not making that up. While it is a well documented scientific fact that rainbows are the product of bunny toots I refuse to believe that a duck has ever tooted an egg. Unless that duck is the kind of duck that may have been a guest on the Jerry Springer show. Just. Gross.)
So, a fairy egg. I actually squealed when I saw it because, come on, it's adorable. I didn't know when I brought it into my house that it could have possibly been the work of the devil. I should have thrown it over the roof of the house to ward off evil but I didn't. It's sitting in the refrigerator. Harmlessly. So far.
So where did it come from? We have 5 female ducks and have been getting 3 eggs a day like clockwork - 1 Pekin and 2 Runners. The stray duck that showed up in our yard is too old for this kind of thing so I think it was the first laying from the spotted duck that was born here last September.
We are knee deep in eggs. I think there are about 3 1/2 dozen in the house right now. Eggs for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks and baked into treats. Everyone's cholesterol level, including the cats' is probably through the roof.
I'm of the thinking that eggs are good for you. We have loads each week! Going to adopt the name "fart eggs"though! *childish giggle*
ReplyDelete*Rolls eyes* I am SO glad that's my contribution to the international conversation on food production and sustainability. A comment about farts. Lol.
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