Egg size - does it change?

[cluck love]

We have 4 Rhode Island Reds who are 5 months that just started laying about a week ago, 2-4 eggs a day

! The eggs are rather small, do they increase in size with time?

 

[dsqard]

Yes they do.

 

[OkChickens]

Yes they do! Every week they get a little bigger!

-Nate

 

[D'Angelo N Va.]

Congratulations on your eggs....How exciting!! It's like Christmas all over again.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Yes, they will gradually get bigger.

 

[tuthillny]

Yes. It can also depend on the breed and the particular chicken. I have a leghorn and a RSL that went from small to large and extra large egg size in two weeks. But my EE lays a small egg that has barely increased in size.

 

[OkChickens]

My EE's also are laying Medium almost large size eggs and they are a little over a year old. They will get bigger I hope! My Leghorns are laying Large, X-L, Jumbos, and also Double Yolkers every once and a while! I love chickens!

 

[Leah and peeps]

Ya, i was wondering this too. Great Question! My chanteclers started laying back in mid December, and their eggs are still very small, but my SL's when they started laying they had no small egg stage. They started big.

 

[Chick named Lola]

Good to know!

 

[azygous]

If you line up all the eggs from each hen, from the first one laid on to the latest one, you will notice each subsequent egg is just a tad larger than the one before it.

I noticed that this year, my pullets' eggs have all been larger from the first, and they've gotten to be full size quicker than previous batches of new layers. The difference this time is I refrained from supplementing their light exposure until they were almost seven months old. This gave them more time to add to their size before using their energy reserves on egg production.

In comparison, the three little pullets I raised six weeks behind these began to lay within days of this first batch of pullets, and their eggs were all quite small. I can only conclude that the younger the pullet is when they begin laying, the smaller the first eggs will be.

Any others notice this correlation between age and egg size?