Egg-cellent choices: How love for animals turns to farm-fresh abundance

“The more the merrier, but obviously, the more there is, the more eggs you’re gonna have,” she said.

Ms Bove has nine ducks, six female and three male, and the female lays eggs every day.

“I’ll get anywhere between, depending on the time of year, a couple of eggs a day to a dozen eggs a day,” she said.

Recently, Ms Bove posted a call-out on Facebook selling her “quacker eggs” at a discounted price.

The reason? Her ducks have an abundant supply of them.

“I just had ... I think about 120 duck eggs sitting in the fridge at that point,” Ms Bove said.

“I was like, I need to empty out my fridge because I keep them all in the shed fridge.

“It was really full, just stacked up.”

Her female ducks, Jimmi, Timmy, JJ, Daisy, Luke Skywalker, and Aniken, lay at least one egg daily.

“I’ve got more ducks now, so I’m getting a lot more eggs, and we can’t eat that many,” Ms Bove said.

“I usually sell $7 a dozen for the duck eggs.”

When she had an increase in duck egg supply, she brought it down to $5 per dozen.

Besides her ducks, she also has chicken eggs that she sells and goose eggs that she incubates.

“I don’t generally sell them because geese only lay eggs over spring for a couple of months ... not year-round like chickens and ducks,” she said.

“I usually incubate those for babies.”

She sells her eggs through her farm’s Facebook page, A & A Farm, but she said it’s a hit or miss sometimes.

“I could have no-one interested one week and then sell out the next,” she said.

“It just really varies a lot.”

Ms Bove said eggs could get dangerous if stored for too long, so if she’s got big numbers of unsold eggs, she needed to think of other ways to get rid of them.

“I feed them to the dogs or the chickens,” she said.

“I boil them up, and they (dogs and other animals) eat them.”

She said she also gave them away to friends and family and sometimes at food share drives.