Ginormous Egg!!!!

[Cloverleaf Farm]

My sweet little EE, "Willow" just laid the biggest chicken egg I have ever seen!!! She just started laying a couple of weeks ago, her eggs started out green, and have turned a lovely aqua blue (that's eggciting enough in itself!) But look what she did today!!.........

I can't wait til breakfast tomorrow!!!

On top of all of the medium/large brown eggs I gathered today...

In a JUMBO egg carton......

And next to the egg she laid yesterday.....

 

[fldiver97]

Wow, two yolks????

 

[Andi]

I bet it'll be a double yolker. My girls recently started laying as well and I had 1 lay a huge egg also. The egg carton lid wouldn't close all the way. It turned out to be a double yolker. The huge egg was fun (so I know how you feel), but getting a double yolker was fun, too. I wonder how frequently double yolkers happen and what causes it. Is it genetics, like some people are more likely to have twins because it runs in the family?

 

[candysclucks]

My experience is that young hens that are just starting to lay produce the double yokers. As they get older I don't seem to get double yokers; only in the beginning.

 

[Happy Chooks]

A double yolker pullet bullet. Congrats!

 

[chick4chix]

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I got one of those last week- but didn't think to call it that- great name!

 

[Happy Chooks]

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I got one of those last week- but didn't think to call it that- great name!

Can't take credit for that one. I think gritsar posted it once and I thought it was so funny!

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

pullet bullet! haa haa that's awesome! Yeah, I'm guessing it's going to be a double yolker...I'll letcha know tomorrow!

YUMM!

 

[Tygrepath]

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Wow that is HUGE! Congrats and enjoy.