Egg Size

[Oregon Blues]

I'm a bit surprised to see the weights of eggs that people are posting. It looks like the Pomeranian eggs are monsters at 188 gr and 187 gr.

I haven't seen anybody post weights that high. Pomeranians are not large geese.

How about it guys? Let's hear about your big goose eggs.

 

[r4eboxer]

I have a Pilgrim egg that is in the bator on day 14 that is 211 gm, the other three are from 204- 184 gms at day 14. My geese are in the 5th breeding season and alI I have pulled from the nest are from 185-215 gms.

eta: I just bought a digital scale a few days ago. I weighed my eggs on a dial food scale when I set them and when I saw most the eggs in the hatching more goslings thread I thought my scale was way way off, but the digital scale confirmed most my eggs are around the 190-210 weight.

This is my first season with geese. I got these pairs from a girl in my area.

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

Lilac Sebastopol at 209, buff Pomeranian at 213 there are others, will have to pull the spread sheet and look them up. We have some monster eggs this year.

 

[D'Angelo N Va.]

Where can I get one of these scales??? I'm interested in weighing mine now...

 

[The goose girl]

Most of my goose's eggs this spring weigh between 180 and 190 gr. Last fall she laid some monster big ones (double yolked), the biggest was 286 gr. She's a White Italian Goose.

Here's a regular chicken egg and the monster goose egg:

 

[Iain Utah]

My biggest egg is from a utility Toulouse and weighed in at 219 grams at start of incubation. It is growing great. Can't wait to see the hatchling that comes out of it.

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

We have 4 buff American eggs that are 218, 214, 220, and 226!

Weights are easily done on a digital kitchen scale. Walmart and target both sell them.

 

[extraordinaryfowl]

My Solid Cotton Patch's eggs are around 180 grams, biggest being 190

 

[D'Angelo N Va.]

Thanks so much.

 

[larkflying]

I took a American Buff goose egg, duck egg, brown egg, and bantam egg to school for my farm class to weigh. The goose egg weighed more than the other eggs all together -- I think it ended up at 189 grams -- was just an egg I grabbed though, not a particularily big one. I bet a double yolk goose egg is AMAZING . . .

The kids love weighing the goose egg with the other eggs - and suprisingly - they didn't break one . . . I'm hoping my sitting geese will have at least one gosling that I can show them in a few weeks . . .