Bantam Egg Size Thread

[carolynm]

I like Bantam chickens since they pack a lot of punch into a small package. One thing I find myself often looking up is what size is a certain bantam breed's egg. To that end I decided we should have a thread to post our Bantam Egg sizes. Please cut and post the egg weights before yours so that hopefully by the end of this thread we can have a nice compilation of bantam egg sizes...I'll go first

Breed Age Egg Weight How Many eggs/wk Color
Bantam Cochin 2yrs 34-38g 5 Brown

 

[AlpineButterfly]

Quote:
My girl is still a very young pullet, so her eggs are smaller than what I expect them to be in a year or so.

Breed Age Egg Weight How Many eggs/wk Egg Color
Bantam Brahma ~20wks ~29g (~1oz) 5-6 brown

Elanor's first week of eggs.

 

[hedz82]

I have a gorgeous splash orpington bantam, and her eggs are impressive for her size, and she lays as much as 5 times a week, too. but the best is her character, she loved being around us and just sit on the table and preen while we work.
Breed Age Egg Weight How Many eggs/wk Egg Color
Bantam Orpington < 1 year ~37g 5 tan

 

[jajeanpierre]

I have one almost 6-month old bantam frizzled Cochin that has started laying eggs a week or two ago. She is laying a surprising number of eggs and they seem very large for her tiny size. They are around 30 grams. This morning I found an egg that might have been hers that weighed 34 grams. If not her egg, it was from one of the Silkies (same age) that also lay eggs around the 30 gram mark. My (supposedly) LF Polish pullets from a hathcery lay eggs the same size. All are the same age, hatch date mid March. All from McMurry Hatchery. (An ounce is about 28.4 grams.)

 

[carolynm]

So far we have:

Breed Age Egg Weight How Many eggs/wk Color
Bantam Frizzled Cochin 6mths 30-34g
Bantam Cochin 2yrs 34-38g 5 Brown
Bantam Brahma ~20wks ~29g (~1oz) 5-6 brown
Bantam Orpington < 1 year ~37g 5 tan
Silkie 6 months 30g

 

[jajeanpierre]

Yesterday another Silkie started laying. A teeny tiny 18g egg! All my Silkie and bantam Cochin eggs are brown to pale tan, almost pink. One Silkie layed a speckled egg.

How does everyone know which chicken laid which egg? These are the firs chickens I've ever had and they are a few days shy of six months old.

Thanks.

 

[gootziecat]

Breed Age Egg Weight How many eggs wk/color

Cornish bantam 6 mo 1.25 - 1.50 oz 4 tinted/buff


Large egg is a medium store egg

 

[carolynm]

Breed Age Egg Weight How Many eggs/wk Color

Cochin
Bantam Frizzled Cochin 6mths 30-34g
Bantam Cochin 2yrs 34-38g 5 Brown

Others
Bantam Brahma ~20wks ~29g (~1oz) 5-6 brown
Bantam Orpington < 1 year ~37g 5 tan
Silkie 6 months 30g
Cornish Bantam 6 month 1.25-1.5 oz 4 tinted/buff

 

[pysankigirl]

Bantam Orp ~ 37g no idea how often, tan egg
Bantam OEG ~ 25g and lays every 3 days, white egg

both are very young and just started laying

 

[AlpineButterfly]

I went on vacation, and when I got back a bantam easter egger had just started laying! (possibly more than one, but hard to say if they are from the same or different chickens).

Breed Age Egg Weight How Many eggs/wk Color
Bantam Easter Egger 6mths ~32g 6? green


First bantam easter egger eggs... possibly Edith's.