Duck lays black-coloured eggs in Kurigram

A local variety of duck rearing by one Ibrahim in Nageshwari upazila of Kurigram district reportedly has laid two black-coloured eggs.

Ibrahim, a final-year honours student of Kurigram Majida College, received five native variety ducks as a gift from his father-in-law’s house six months ago.

The incident happened at Purba Narayanpur Pramanik Para, a bordering village of Narayanpur union.

Kurigram District Livestock Officer Dr Yunus Ali said he had heard about the incident.

“This can be due to an infection in the duck’s uterus,” he said.

If the amount of pigment required for egg production is absent, this could happen, he added. On September 25, two ducks in two separate areas of Charfesson upazila of Bhola laid grey eggs.