Grading your eggs the easy way

I was looking around for an egg scale, and couldn't quite stomach shelling out $25+ for what amounts to a simple spring scale with a fancy design. I checked eBay and Craiglist and a bunch of the stores advertised here on BYC. One store advertised several spring egg scales and also a small digital scale to which they added a wooden egg cup, for $50+!!

Then I got to thinking.... I have an old digital postage scale that weighs in fractions of ounces. I have a porcelain egg cup, or a little glass dish. All I had to do was turn on the postage scale, set the dish on the top tray and hit "Tare" to zero out the weight of the dish.

I went online to Wikipedia to "Eggs" and found a chart listing the USA weights for the various sizes of eggs, from Jumbo to Peewee. They also list Canada, Australia, Europe and a few other places' size/weight charts. They also give the USDA grading for AA, A and B eggs. Very helpful!

So, I weighed the eggs and lightly pencil J, XL, or L on the top of each egg. I get 10-12 eggs a day, so it's not many to do. Makes a difference when ladies at the farm stand look into the carton and see that yes, these eggs are comparable in size to store-bought, and a whole lot nicer.

Here's what the chart said about sizes/weights for the USA: (the weights & sometimes names vary for other countries)
Jumbo .....................Greater than 2.5 oz or 71 g
Very Large/XLarge....Greater than 2.25 oz or 64 g
Large.......................Greater than 2 oz or 57 g
Medium...................Greater than 1.75 oz or 50 g
Small..................... Greater than 1.5 oz or 43 g
PeeWee...................Greater than 1.25 oz or 35 g

Maybe this is old news to y'all, but this is my first flock and it's pretty exciting seeing just how efficient my girls are making yummy eggs!