egg size

featherednest

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My 2 original Swedish Flower hens lay different size eggs. They are a little over a year old now and 1 lays a large egg and the other a medium egg. Is it too early to tell if the one laying the smaller egg will eventually lay larger eggs after molting? I have heard that sometimes the eggs a chicken lays increase in size as they get older and after molting.
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Egg size will increase as the hen gets older. As for the difference, that is normal. In my flock, I have Barred Rocks, and get 1-3 double yolked eggs a day, a bunch of medium eggs, and a couple of what I would consider pullet eggs, even though they are all about a year old.
 

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