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Hi my name is toyah and I have just bought egg for the first time and I have 3 that are a lot smaller then the others and was concerned that they are to small was just trying to get some help on the matter thank you in advance
 
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Do you mean you bought fertile eggs to hatch and some are very small size? Pullet eggs (when a young female is starting to lay eggs) tend to be small. As she continues to lay they get up to regular size for that breed. If you have bantam eggs, they will never get as large as full sized hens would produce.

Some folks believe that the early pullet eggs should not be hatched because there might not be enough room inside for a check to develop properly.
 
toyah said:
Hi my name is toyah and I have just bought egg for the first time and I have 3 that are a lot smaller then the others and was concerned that they are to small was just trying to get some help on the matter thank you in advance
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Hi, welcome to BYC.
I'm not sure I am understanding just what you are asking. Did you buy the eggs with the intention of hatching them? Were any of the eggs you bought sold as "bantam" eggs? What breed(s) of birds are the eggs reported to have come from?
 
Hello, and welcome!
drumstick diva said:
Do you mean you bought fertile eggs to hatch and some are very small size? Pullet eggs (when a young female is starting to lay eggs) tend to be small. As she continues to lay they get up to regular size for that breed. If you have bantam eggs, they will never get as large as full sized hens would produce.

Some folks believe that the early pullet eggs should not be hatched because there might not be enough room inside for a check to develop properly.
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^^This
and some pure breeds also do not have big eggs.
data from http://www.sandhillpreservation.com/pages/poultry_catalog.html

  • Jumbo (30+ oz./doz eggs or +71grams per egg): White Faced White Spanish, Wheaten Maran, Blue Copper Maran, Blue Wheaten Maran.
  • Extra Large (27-30 oz./doz eggs or less 71g per egg): Welsummer, White Minorca, Black Copper Maran, Delaware, Erminette, Silver Penciled Wyandotte, Black Australorp, Black Orpington, Partridge Barnevender, Buff Catalana, Partridge Penedescenca, Single Comb Light Brown Leghorn, Barnevelder, Silver Grey Dorking, Frizzle, Silver Laced Wyandotte, Lavender Orpington, Silver Campine, Blue Jersey Giant, Black Langshan, White Jersey Giant, Blue Langshan, Cuckoo Maran, and White Houdan.
  • Large (24-27 oz./dozen eggs or less 64g per egg): New Hampshire, Blue Andalusian, Colored Dorking, Red Dorking, White Orpington, Auburn Sumatra, Black Minorca, La Fleche, Ancona, Black Jersey Giant, Blue Orpington, Manx Rumpie, Rhode Island Red, Buckeye, Buff Minorca, Blue Ameraucana, Blue Cochin, Salmon Faverolle, Ameraucana, Blue Wyandotte, Black Ameraucana, Buff Orpington, Rose Comb Rhode Island Red, Rose Comb Red Dorking, White cochin, Golden Lakenvelder, Rose Comb Colored Dorking, White Leghorn, Dark Grey Dorking, Flame Jaerhon, Partridge Rock, Crevecoeur, Red Polish, White Dorking, Buff Cornish, Buf Cochin, Black Dorking, Black Cochin, Black Penedescenca, Golden Laced Wyandotte, Mottled Java, and Rose Comb Rhode Island White.
  • Medium (21-24 oz./dozen eggs or less 57g per egg): Dominique, Exchequer Leghorn, Lakenvelder, Speckled Sussex, Mahogany Favrolle, Buff Laced Polish, Barred Holland, Creme Brabanter, Partridge Chantecler, White Crested Black Polish, Black Polish, Black Sumatra, Red Leghorn, Golden Campine, White Chantecler, Buff Chantecler, Blue Laced Red Wyandotte, Cuckoo Dorking, Golden Polish, Spangled Russian Orloff, Light Sussex, Cuckoo Scots Dumpie, Egyptian Fayoumi, Iowa Blue, Red Pyle Cubalaya, Longcrower, Buff Leghorn, Columbian Wyandotte, Black Leghorn, Light Grey Dorking, Black Breasted Red Shamo, Black Crested Blue Polish, Black Shamo, Black Wyandotte, Red Chantecler, Black Breasted Red Kraienkoppe, Golden Spangled Hamburg, White Polish, Mahogany Orloff, Red Sussex, Muffed Old English Game, Redcap, Frizzled Black Sumatra, Black Breasted Red Cubalaya, Blue Polish, Buttercup, Dark Shamo, Icelandic, Mille Fleur Leghorn, and Norwegian Jaerhon.
  • Small (18-21 oz./dozen eggs or less 50g per egg): Brown Red Cubalaya, Silver Polsih, Golden Penciled Hamburg, White Cualaya, Silver Kraienkoppe, Silver Laced Cochin, Silver Penciled Hamburg, and White La Fleche.
[sorry i use grams not oz.]
 
Hi thankyou for getting back to me. Yes they are believed fertile and it was a mixed lot. So I'm not sure of what breeds they are. The smallest one weighs 22.9g and 23.2g then there is one that weighs 36.0g these are very tiny eggs. Thankyou again for your replays x
 
There is really no way to determine if the eggs are "too small" without knowing the breed of bird that they are from - the normal egg size of a bantam would seem small in comparison to the expected/optimal sized hatching egg of a large fowl bird, especially of breeds known for producing very large eggs. It would be a shame for you to discard the eggs or not set them based on an assumption about them being undersized only to find out they were very much "normal" sized for the breeds they represented. Do you have a way to contact the person the eggs came from to inquire what breeds they have in their flock(s) where the eggs were gathered from? Ultimately, if you are not able to ascertain the breeds, the best you could do is go ahead and set them and see what happens.
 

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