Subject: DUCK EATING EGGS...NO NO!!
Date: May 16 19:25:09 2000
From: Blake Iverson - bswallow25 at hotmail.com




Hi there tweeters,

I just wanted to commet that most likely the DUCK did not eat her own
eggs. What you saw is normal in a lot of birds. Females exert a lot of
energy when carrying for eggs and when the eggs shell cannot or the female
doesn't want to carry it away from the nest she will eat it for calcium.
BARN SWALLOWS and PURPLE MARTINS are famous for doing this, crush some eggs
and you will have some SWALLOWS eating the eggs for calcium. I to do not no
what could have eaten them except for an owl, I do not know if owls have
been known to eat eggs but hay, they eat all kinds of other animals why not
an egg.

Blake Iverson
arlington, wa
bswallow25 at hotmail.com


P.S. IF THERE IS A DUCK EXPERT AT ALL WHO CAN COMMENT ON THIS PLEASE
DO.....YOU NEVER KNOW, I MAY BE WRONG. BUT IT'S HIGHLY UNLIKELY.
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