Home of the Whopper

[Blisschick]

Today was a nasty day, but my Jersey girls were good and layed 5 for 5. I got home late, so I was gathering them in the dark. Imagine my surprise when the flashlight reavealed this!!

This beaut weighs in at a full 2 oz. and is 3 1/4 in. long. It's the most massive egg I've ever seen a chicken lay! If it hadn't been a Jersey doing it, I would have looked for a dead bird!

Here's comparing it to what I normally get from my girls.

I'll have to candle it to see if it has a double yolk. I'm seriously thinking about trying to incubate it to see what happens. I may hatch a T-rex!

 

[countryboy]

wow that is big. hatchit hatchit hatchit.

 

[PurpleChicken]

Any chickens walking backwards??? OMG

 

[Blisschick]

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Not that I can tell, they're all in bed for the evening. I will be on the lookout for the bowlegged one tomorrow.

 

[Katy]

OUCH!

I think that's even bigger than the one I found awhile back.

 

[Wooden_Pony]

That is HUGE! I vote incubator time!!! Maybe you will get a goose out of it

 

[akcskye]

Definitely candle to see if it's a double yolk.

Didn't I read somewhere on here that if it is a double yolk, that both embryos would die eventually?

If that is the case, no sense trying to incubate it, right?

 

[Blisschick]

True...if it's a double yolk, I don't think it would make it. On the other hand, there's plenty of room for two...or a family of 5.

 

[Screebert]

Eat it. Don't hatch it!! It's a double-yolk, which will hatch out crippled twins. That happened to a huge egg I incubated, years ago. 2 chicks with crippled legs hatched from one egg. They lived only a day or so.

Heck, it might even be a triple-yolk.

Do you have a turkey? That's an incredibly huge egg.

 

[Blisschick]

I have turkeys, but they don't have access to the pen.

Didn't think of it being a triple yolk, being Jersey eggs. They're jumbo sized to start with.