Giant eggs👩🏼‍🌾

[chrissynemetz]

Hi and welcome to BYC! We're glad you joined us!

 

[AprilsZoo]

So sorry for the loss of your two hens.

Especially with your girls being new-ish layers, the trauma could certainly throw them off for a bit making them lay larger or smaller eggs for a little while. Were their eggs always normal sized before the attack?

Where is North Country? Whereabouts in Hawaii did you live before?

If you search here, you can find lots of posts that will give you instructions & inspiration for predator-proofing your coop and/or run so that you aren’t having to share your house with chickens every night.
There are lots of tips and tricks on the forums that can help you make an absolutely secure place for your chickens outdoors where they belong!

Good luck! Glad you found us.

 

[rjohns39]

Hi Freja and welcome to BYC We're so happy you've decided to join us

So sorry for your losses

 

[drumstick diva]

Thank you for joining us at BYC Freja, it's very nice to meet you.

 

[arwoon]

Welcome!!!!

 

[sjthomas]

Hi, I am Freja and I am currently in North Country.
I moved here from Hawaii just weeks before the pandemic so I am still trying to figure out taking care of my chickens in this climate. I lost two of my sweetest hens to weasels, and two more from the trauma of the attack. Now, I think we have stabilized. Cross your fingers. (I bring all twelve of my chickens in every night to safe guard them from predators...it’s kind of labor intensive, lol.)
But now, one of my hens is laying giant eggs. They are two or three times the size of the other eggs, I just wonder if anyone else has found any issues for their hens in this matter? Can she handle eggs that size? Thanks for listening.View attachment 2569354

We also have had some giant eggs and believe it or not, when we cracked open the largest one, it had 4 yolks!!! I had never seen an egg that large and with that many yolks. From my research on it, I learned that the chances of that are 1 in 11 BILLION! I don't know which of my hens laid it but I suspect it may have been our only Jersey Giant.