Do all young hens start off laying small eggs?

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im so glad that someone started this thread, two of my three my red sex links starting laying last week and this week. THey are medium sized eggs. My third, IF she lays at all (She is a runt, her comb is under developed by atleast an inch from the other hens. Anyway, the two laying hens lay pretty regularly, but arent producing the large eggs they are known for. So i am so glad this post is here, i thought i may have been doing something wrong!
 
im so glad that someone started this thread, two of my three my red sex links starting laying last week and this week. THey are medium sized eggs. My third, IF she lays at all (She is a runt, her comb is under developed by atleast an inch from the other hens. Anyway, the two laying hens lay pretty regularly, but arent producing the large eggs they are known for. So i am so glad this post is here, i thought i may have been doing something wrong!
 
im so glad that someone started this thread, two of my three my red sex links starting laying last week and this week. THey are medium sized eggs. My third, IF she lays at all (She is a runt, her comb is under developed by atleast an inch from the other hens. Anyway, the two laying hens lay pretty regularly, but arent producing the large eggs they are known for. So i am so glad this post is here, i thought i may have been doing something wrong!
 


We have 4 leghorns, they are skinny, but they lay some big eggs, sometimes double yokers. Here is a pic. of our biggest to date.

We got 6 others last spring assorted, no leghorns no Brama's in this batch either These new ones lay smaller eggs, It's all good though we have 12 hens & are now getting 10 or so a day. I keep telling them to give me a dozen though.
 
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I have 2 Easter eggers and one Buff Orpington that I got as day old chicks in mid April. About 6 weeks ago or so I acquired 3 - 1 year old hens. One Black Austrolp one Buff O and one Barred Rock. I just pulled my first medium large egg that is pale blue. My 3 OG babies are now only 4 1/2 months old! The Buff started laying tiny eggs a few weeks ago. The blue one must be from one of the 4 1/2 month old Easter Eggers because none of the older hens lay blue eggs. I googled if this can happen and that’s how I found this discussion. I have not altered light in any way and they eat an extremely healthy diet.
 
Southernchickens said:
I have 6 older hens in a run with 10 young hens that haven't starting laying yet (they have reached the laying age though). Back before winter I got two tiny eggs that I thought were fart eggs but they had yolks. One was brown and the other blue. I have young and old chickens that can lay blue and both that lay brown. Today I got (for the first time all winter) an egg and it was a large brown one. So, does a young hen always start laying small eggs?
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Yes, a hen always starts by laying tiny eggs. They gradually get bigger over a couple weeks time though. :D
 
When my GLW first started laying, her eggs was super small, about an inch and a half. After the first 3 eggs, they started getting larger, until they were normal size. But boy, was she loud as she laid her very first one! She must have been proud!:)
 

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