Holy huge egg!

[rusty acres]

Dang that is one big egg!

Makes me wanna sit on one of those inflatable donuts that folks with 'roids sit on!

In all seriousness, do you know which hen laid it so you can keep an eye on her? I mean laying an egg that big cannot be easy on the reproductive system of any hen that isn't a duck.

I have no idea. I have 13 girls total, 2 EEs that lay blue-green eggs and another 11 (ISA browns, biedelfelders, speckled sussex) that produce brown eggs. 8 of the brown egg layers look like they could be laying (big pink combs, squatting) but I'm currently getting a max of 5 brown eggs a day. They all seemed fine today. Hopefully the egg size will return to normal, since as you said, it surely is a stress on their reproductive system!

 

[sourland]

Ouch !

 

[rusty acres]

Double-yolk hell, is it a double EGG?!

I guess I'll be making a video tomorrow! lol

 

[TwinsLoveChicks]

Double-yolk hell, is it a double EGG?!

That'd be pretty cool!

 

[Welshies]

I have no idea. I have 13 girls total, 2 EEs that lay blue-green eggs and another 11 (ISA browns, biedelfelders, speckled sussex) that produce brown eggs. 8 of the brown egg layers look like they could be laying (big pink combs, squatting) but I'm currently getting a max of 5 brown eggs a day. They all seemed fine today. Hopefully the egg size will return to normal, since as you said, it surely is a stress on their reproductive system!

Actually, laying big eggs like this is normal in young layers or layers just getting back into the swing of things. Their reproductive systems have to sort themselves out, so they'll lay double yolkers. Some broilers do it their whole life. It's common in high production breeds at a young or "new" age. It doesn't affect them badly.

 

[steve232]

I have some Rhode Island Heritage pullets that hatched last April. This fall when they started laying a couple of them laid a couple of huge eggs like that that were double yolkers. Both of their eggs returned to normal but one of them still lays bigger eggs than most of my other hens. Her eggs are usually around 2.5 oz.

 

[The Phantom]

Poor hen!

 

[rusty acres]

It was a double yolk, weighed 3.1 oz. I tried to get a video in case it was that elusive double egg. It was pretty laughable because I thought it was recording but turns out it wasn't, so the recording started when I thought I stopped it. I got several minutes of me washing my hands and puttering around the kitchen with the cracked egg in the foreground, really fascinating stuff Then I decided to eat it for lunch, but didn't want to dirty another dish, so took the lazy way out and cooked it in the microwave. Where it then exploded. Everywhere. #winning