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Off coloured eggs
By:Rob Goodale <lakesend@msn.com>
Date: 16 May 2011

I have two pens and one cob Mute swans. This year, both the pens are nesting and sitting on six eggs each. The one nest has 4 brownish coloured eggs opposed to their blueish hue of normal eggs. Any ideas? Also, is this normal that a cob will have two pens?

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Off coloured eggs -- Rob Goodale -- 16 May 2011
Re: Off coloured eggs -- The Regal Swan -- 17 May 2011