Chicken laying smaller eggs

Strykester

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My Easter egger has been laying for about a month now, large green eggs. The last 2 eggs from her have been small to medium. Thinking they were fairy eggs I cracked them open and they both had 2 perfectly formed yolks. Is there anything that would cause her to go from laying large eggs to small/medium seemingly out of nowhere? She’ll be 1 in July.
 
Were the 'large' eggs double yolkers?
Weights and/or pics of eggs next to a quarter for scale might help define what you are calling small, medium and large.

Stress, water consumption, heat can effect size of eggs.
Plus the variance in size is fairly normal for some birds.
 
My Easter egger has been laying for about a month now, large green eggs. The last 2 eggs from her have been small to medium. Thinking they were fairy eggs I cracked them open and they both had 2 perfectly formed yolks. Is there anything that would cause her to go from laying large eggs to small/medium seemingly out of nowhere? She’ll be 1 in July.
It is probably just because she is still young and her body is getting itself sorted. 😊
 
I’ve got 2 Easter eggers, one that lays cream eggs and the one that lays green from the same batch. For the first month-ish, the eggs were the same size regardless of the color. Now for the last 3 eggs in a row the green are noticibly smaller. I did crack two of them open and they appeared to be perfectly formed eggs with a normal size yolk in them. Will update with a picture later today.
 
My Easter egger has been laying for about a month now, large green eggs. The last 2 eggs from her have been small to medium. Thinking they were fairy eggs I cracked them open and they both had 2 perfectly formed yolks. Is there anything that would cause her to go from laying large eggs to small/medium seemingly out of nowhere? She’ll be 1 in July.
Does she have plenty of water?
 
Does she have plenty of water?

Plenty of food and water. I have 3 different waterers in the coop/run. Attached are some pictures for size comparisons. The cream colored egg on the far right is from my other Easter egger. The two green eggs are the right we’re the size I had been getting and the two on the left are notibly smaller, but not miniature and when cracked out they seem to be perfectly normal.
 

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Plenty of food and water. I have 3 different waterers in the coop/run. Attached are some pictures for size comparisons. The cream colored egg on the far right is from my other Easter egger. The two green eggs are the right we’re the size I had been getting and the two on the left are notibly smaller, but not miniature and when cracked out they seem to be perfectly normal.
Well, a lot of times my girls lay different sizes and shaped eggs. One time when they all got sick they all started laying really weird eggs for a while.
 
Plenty of food and water. I have 3 different waterers in the coop/run. Attached are some pictures for size comparisons. The cream colored egg on the far right is from my other Easter egger. The two green eggs are the right we’re the size I had been getting and the two on the left are notibly smaller, but not miniature and when cracked out they seem to be perfectly normal.
They don't seem to be that big of a difference in size.
I wouldn't worry about it.
 

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