Giant egg!

[LittleMissCountry]

My buff orp laid this extra large egg yesterday. She is a fairly new layer. I am guessing it a double yolk. Today was a regular sized egg.

She has been laying pretty large eggs for a new layer anyway, but this one...wow! This is an extra large egg carton, for reference.

 

[woodenfarm]

I have a white leghorn that will do this from time to time. It is always a double yoke. I always send family a picture of it and joke that I need to catch this Ostrich that laid that egg.

 

[tacothechicken]

Haha our NHR layed a double yoke the other day that looked like the dinosaur egg models you find in a museum! Only needed one egg for breakfast that morning!... Or was it 2?!!!!XD

 

[GreatGranny]

My buff orp laid this extra large egg yesterday. She is a fairly new layer. I am guessing it a double yolk. Today was a regular sized egg.

She has been laying pretty large eggs for a new layer anyway, but this one...wow! This is an extra large egg carton, for reference.

Oh wow!!!

 

[Birdsong 82]

Looks like a double yolker to me. I have one Particular Rd., Island red that lays a huge egg. A lot of double yolkers from her. Thinking about it I feel somewhat sorry for her. LOL but I do love those eggs that are so big you can’t even close the egg carton. I love to weigh them. Some of her eggs register above jumbo weight. Don’t you love owning chickens

 

[LittleMissCountry]

Looks like a double yolker to me. I have one Particular Rd., Island red that lays a huge egg. A lot of double yolkers from her. Thinking about it I feel somewhat sorry for her. LOL but I do love those eggs that are so big you can’t even close the egg carton. I love to weigh them. Some of her eggs register above jumbo weight. Don’t you love owning chickens

Yes! This is my first chicken flock and it is so much fun. I love knowing where the eggs are coming from and what the chickens eat. If we had more land, I would want to raise cows, too. Lol. My parents always bartered with a farmer to let him bale the hay in their property in exchange for fresh meat each year. It was the best tasting beef!

 

[Birdsong 82]

Love to raise cows , sheep and donkeys but 4 goats 2 potbellies and 18 chickens my 2 1/2 acres is maxed out. Actually my entire land couldn’t raise cows! Nothing beats a fresh laid egg

 

[LittleMissCountry]

Love to raise cows , sheep and donkeys but 4 goats 2 potbellies and 18 chickens my 2 1/2 acres is maxed out. Actually my entire land couldn’t raise cows! Nothing beats a fresh laid egg

We have 6 acres, but no pasture...mostly wooded and sloping toward a river, pretty steep in spots. No place for cows. I agree that fresh eggs are so much better than store bought!

 

[Birdsong 82]

The best thing about chickens is that if you have enough they pay for themselves. Mine pay for their own food and bedding and since I repurposed most of the materials for their new coop they were able to pay for that too

 

[Birdsong 82]

How many do you have in your flock