One of our ducks laid her first egg this morning. Found it in their pen. All dirty, but they didn't step on it! I took a photo of it along side the hen eggs that we gathered today. The duck egg, at this point, is about the same size as the hen eggs but much lighter off-white with some gray blotches on it. Not sure if they will always be that way, kind of two tone, or if the eggs will gradually become one tone.
The pullets are being integrated with the hens this week. They are still sleeping in their own areas, but we hope to push them all into the large pen in a few more days and start encouraging them to "get along." I was able to get photos of them all, with the exception of our mature Black Copper Maran who was in the nesting box and I didn't want to distract her.
