How big is the biggest egg you've gotten!?

[RootedTogetherHomestead]

Our girl, Violet, is newly laying. This was her 7th egg (laid for 6 days in a row, skipped a day, and BAM).

Her previous egg was 52g, and this egg is 77g! Will her eggs get bigger?! We haven't used this one yet to see if it is possibly a double. (My sister thinks it is).

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[thecatumbrella]

I've heard eggs can get bigger over time once they start laying, but I've never really seen that firsthand. My Hornet lays more of an elongated egg just like that! Crazy size on yours. I think the largest I've gotten was just a hair bigger than your typical supermarket large egg (from Ginger the Golden Comet). Wish I had weighed it!

 

[ChickenChick46]

That's a big egg! My bantam chicks only weigh about 40 grams, lol.

 

[Sinadrea]

Our girl, Violet, is newly laying. This was her 7th egg (laid for 6 days in a row, skipped a day, and BAM). Her previous egg was 52g, and this egg is 77g!

I will have to weigh next time, we ate it this morning. It came from my 1 y/o bielefelder. She doesn't lay regularly. A lot of her eggs have been leather eggs.

 

[thecatumbrella]

A lot of her eggs have been leather eggs.

What's a leather egg, if you don't mind me asking?

 

[Sinadrea]

What's a leather egg, if you don't mind me asking?

I think thats the term they use when the eggs are soft. They sometimes just fall out of her butt and are broken. She may not be getting enough calcium. My other hens are fine.

 

[Beau plus penny]

Our girl, Violet, is newly laying. This was her 7th egg (laid for 6 days in a row, skipped a day, and BAM).

Her previous egg was 52g, and this egg is 77g! Will her eggs get bigger?! We haven't used this one yet to see if it is possibly a double. (My sister thinks it is).

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the biggest egg weve gotten was bigger than the store bought eggs

 

[jbj25]

Our girl, Violet, is newly laying. This was her 7th egg (laid for 6 days in a row, skipped a day, and BAM).

Her previous egg was 52g, and this egg is 77g! Will her eggs get bigger?! We haven't used this one yet to see if it is possibly a double. (My sister thinks it is).

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That will be a double yolk

 

[Not-so Slick Chicken]

Not uncommon with new layers.
They don't always get the laying process right, and might release two of the little things that become yolks.

Sometimes when that happens, the next egg might be small and won't have a yolk (some people call them "fairy eggs")


I unfortunately didn't weigh the giant eggs my pullets produced (this one in the pictures is from a few months ago. She had been laying for a few weeks)
I think it was my poor Rhode Island Red.

My mom used to have hens that consistently produced double yolks. Occasionally somebody made triple or more.

 

[Not-so Slick Chicken]

Our girl, Violet, is newly laying. This was her 7th egg (laid for 6 days in a row, skipped a day, and BAM).

Her previous egg was 52g, and this egg is 77g! Will her eggs get bigger?! We haven't used this one yet to see if it is possibly a double. (My sister thinks it is).

**Edited because I pressed enter too quickly**

What does it mean if I see a cutesy little face on the egg (the debris looks like kinda?)