Freak Size Egg

[CluckCluck_SqueakSqueak]

Dang! That’s huge! Have you cracked it open yet or are you planning to incubate it?

 

[MarkRainbolt]

Dang! That’s huge! Have you cracked it open yet or are you planning to incubate it?

Both eggs were double yoke. Both yoke’s were the size of large eggs themselves.
Mark

 

[Nym]

I didn’t weigh the first one, but the second one weighed 4oz. Which was just a little smaller than the first one. So I am thinking the first one weighed in the neighborhood of 4 1/2oz.
Mark

Wow, that's 113grams, most regular eggs come in around 60 -70grams.

 

[Nym]

If that egg was fertilised, would two chicks hatch? has anyone experienced such a thing?

 

[killmak]

If that egg was fertilised, would two chicks hatch? has anyone experienced such a thing?

It's a bad idea to hatch a double yolk. Most of the time both chicks die, the odd time one will survive, and very very rarely both will survive. Even the ones that do survive often have issues.

 

[Nym]

It's a bad idea to hatch a double yolk. Most of the time both chicks die, the odd time one will survive, and very very rarely both will survive. Even the ones that do survive often have issues.

Thank you!

 

[Clementine2022]

Got this huge egg today. The egg next to it is a large egg. I get one this size every few years. The hen that layed it is a Plymouth White Rock.
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I have a Plymouth Barred Rock that lays eggs like that once a week at least. I tease her about giving me double white eggs rather than double yolks. She's my odd ball. Molly is special

 

[kmiddi]

We got a very large egg last week and when my wife cracked it open there was a small reddish egg at one end about the size of a golf ball. She cracked it open and it was a small version of a regular egg (white and yoke). We kicked ourselves for not taking pictures.

 

[Double Yolked]

OMG that poor hen that laid that egg! Was going to bet it's was double yolked or had an egg inside an egg. Your girls deserve extra treats and calcium after that.

 

[NorthwoodsChick]

OMG that poor hen that laid that egg! Was going to bet it's was double yolked or had an egg inside an egg. Your girls deserve extra treats and calcium after that.

Poor girl is right. a sitz bath would be nice