giant egg!

[Luke72]

Got this wierd looking, giant egg yesterday... should I be worried?

 

[Odem0409]

I got a couple of those from a broiler i had bought from a hatchery dealer.

 

[scratch'n'peck]

I don't think you need to be worried. Sometimes hens get a little off of their regular egg laying cycle or an egg takes longer to go through the oviduct. I would not be surprised if that egg has two yolks in it. If you have a suspicion of which hen might have laid the egg it might not hurt to keep an eye on her, because some hens just have a tendency to lay those large eggs more often than others. That could increase the risk of becoming egg bound at some point (egg stuck in vent or oviduct.) But apparently the hen in question laid this big egg with out much problem.

 

[Campngolf]

Got this wierd looking, giant egg yesterday... should I be worried?

Not as worried as the girl who laid it. That is a bigun.

 

[Mahlzeit]

Those giant eggs happen from time to time. I've had a couple triple yolkers before. As already said that is probably a double yolk egg.

 

[aart]

WOW!! That could be a triple yolker or a shelled egg in an egg.

 

[Sarevan]

OMG! I would wonder about the hen that laid that HUGE egg, Id keep an eye out as something that large could make for a prolapse, or future egg laying problems.

 

[BarnChickyOO]

No, you shouldn't be worried at all.

Are they new layers? Mine layed eggs like that for a few months after they started, and now they're mostly normal. But I do get the "odd egg" every once in a while.

 

[ChickensInHugo]

I just had a hen lay a giant egg, and a search led me to this thread. the picture doesn't do it justice, but here it is:

 

[pnutj58]

Wow! That first one is really, really big. Did it get used? Did it have multiple yolks?

I did a search about giant eggs on the forums because Hilary gave me one today. She usually lays slightly longer and narrower eggs than Tillie, but nothing like this. This is a normal egg at the top and Hilary's giant one at the bottom. She doesn't seem to be any worse for the work of laying that thing. But, I was worried and wondered if it was "normal." Apparently it's not uncommon, so I'll just keep and eye on her and hope she doesn't do that again.