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On today’s This Morning, Josie Gibson and Craig Doyle met a woman who claims she got herself a pet duck through an unusual method.
Chloe, who lives in Cornwall, met her little best friend Buddy after purchasing duck eggs from supermarket Morrisons, and incubating them.
She was inspired after reading that it could be a possibility, and got to work purchasing the goods, tracking down an incubator and harvesting the duck.
After just a few days, she could see a heartbeat.
‘I always knew I was going to keep her,’ Chloe sweetly told Josie, 38, and Craig, 52.
‘I actually had two that were fertile, but sadly the other one didn’t make it to hatch day,’ explained Chloe.
Chloe introduced Buddy to This Morning viewers (Picture: ITV)
Josie then asked Chloe to fill them in on how she found out about Buddy’s gender.
Buddy basically threw her own low-key gender reveal party: ‘We thought she was a boy, so we called her Buddy but then she started laying eggs so we know she’s a girl’.
‘It is surprising to a certain extent and people at home might be a bit freaked out,’ pointed out Craig.
Josie and Craig spoke to Chloe (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock)
We must admit we’re rethinking our scrambled egg breakfasts, and we were not alone.
‘I’ve just bought some [eggs] I don’t want to use them now,’ wrote one person.
Other viewers were a little perplexed at the guest’s revelation.
‘Can you buy duck eggs from the supermarket??’ enquired one person. According to Chloe – yes!
Others were in such shock, they simply said they ‘do not believe this story’.
Other people were just enjoying Buddy’s quacking, and called her ‘cute’.
Josie and Craig did later reassure everyone at home that it is quite rare to buy fertilised eggs.
Chloe is not completely alone though – Deza Empson from Redcar, Yorkshire, also popped some Braddock-White Clarence Court eggs from Morrisons in an incubator on a whim – and three of them hatched.
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Buddy caused a stir.