"While I was in Waitrose, I saw the duck eggs and thought maybe they would work as well. I was so excited for them to hatch but I still had in the back of my mind that these are supermarket eggs.

She said it was meant to be a joke to trick her father into thinking she had bought some duck eggs to hatch and keep in her garden. Ms McDougal, who lives near Rugby in Warwickshire, said Morri ...