bronze turkey egg size?

[poultryteen17]

My standard bronze hen laid her first egg ever. i was woundering if they do like chickens and start out laying smaller eggs. if so how big will her eggs get??

 

[poultryteen17]

Anybody know anything about the bronze turkey eggs????

 

[KrisH]

My head says yes, my limited experience says no.

we have a 3 yr old hen, and several 10 month old hens. I do not see a difference in egg size, but the turkeys did not start til they were about 8 1/2 months old and chickens can start as early as 16 weeks. so the turkey hens were much older to start with before they began to lay.

I know that is not much help

RobertH

 

[poultryteen17]

Thanks for the response and info.

 

[daniel rainey]

goose, turkey, hen... but as im sure your aware there are laods of variaties of bronze turkeys and all can have variation in egg size. but not massive variation. iv never had a turkey that started laying small then got big, but theres always a first!!

 

[KrisH]

I think he means that with chickens, pullett eggs are small and as a hen ages her eggs get bigger (to a certain size)

but I have not yet seen our turkeys do that

RobertH

 

[poultryteen17]

Thanks so much. Wasnt exactly sure if they were like chickens or not.

 

[retlaw]

Every now and then the hens might lay one that's bigger then their normal and smaller then their normal.
Had an egg much smaller then a chicken egg once and the eggs pre and post where normal size.
If I think of it that egg had no yolk.

 

[exop]

I have a bunch of 10 month old Narragansett hens and their two mothers (now 2 year olds).

One of the young hens had a secret nest in a haystack in the barn. When I pillaged it and took the eggs away, I noticed the oldest ones (her first?) were a lot smaller than the newest. The smallest egg was about chicken egg size. Later eggs, 1/4 to 1/2 inch longer with larger diameter as well.

This week I discovered one of the mothers has started laying, and hers are noticably larger than her daughters' and nieces'. If I can take a photo, I will. However, my prize exhibit (the smallest egg) will be missing, as I put it outside as a "nest egg" and something ate it.