Egg Size by Breed

[CarlaRiggs]

I've searched several different sites, with different results

, so I thought I'd ask owners of the different breeds what size eggs their girls are laying.
I thought I had carefully chosen large egg layers ~ looks like I was wrong.

Barred Rock lays a nice large egg... 2 - 2.5 oz eggs.
Buff Orp has layed 3 large eggs, and all the others mediums.... 1.8 oz eggs.
Wyandotte lays medium eggs.... 1.8 oz
Austrolorpe I'm not sure. : ) I know she's laying but I've not actually caught her in the act. I have a strong hunch her eggs are 1.8 oz, also.

If I purchase any replacement birds, I would like to have a hen that will lay large eggs. I bake alot, and this is generally what a recipe calls for.

Carla

 

[JennsPeeps]

Eggs will get bigger, but less frequent, and the hen ages.

My girls are still young - about 7 months - and lay eggs in the 51-56g range. (1.8-1.99 oz)

My RIR is an egg machine. Man, watch that girl go! Big, dark eggs 7-8 days in a row.

 

[crazyhen]

From what I have heard Delawares lay large eggs as do white leggon (can't spell today). A lot of others lay med. to large. All start out smaller when they are pullets and after the molt usually as the others say get larger and less often . Jean

 

[opihiman911]

my RIR and BR girls lay large to extra large eggs (BR lay the occasional extra large). My RIR are 3 years old now and starting to slow down to 3-4 eggs per week. My BR are still young and can push out an egg almost every day. I have several austrolorp and mutt hens all lay medium eggs.

If I remember right when I was starting out and looking for large brown layer in addition to RIR and BR on my list were, delawares, orpingtons, wyandotte, barnvelders & wellsummers.
It was just so happened that all I could get were RIR and BR at the time.

Cory