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

[RootedTogetherHomestead]

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

No, I see it too! Aww, so cute!

 

[RootedTogetherHomestead]

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!

We were shocked when we saw how big it was, especially compared to our BB egg! That's why we weighed it. I will be shocked if hers get bigger than this.

 

[RootedTogetherHomestead]

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.

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Aww! That's a really big egg and such pretty colors you have!!

 

[RootedTogetherHomestead]

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.

Holy moly! That is a big em! I was hoping one of their first eggs would be a fairy egg (so far, no fairy egg). A triple yolk would have to be massive - poor girl. Our girl who laid this one isn't very big! I was like, "THAT CAME OUT OF YOU!?!?!"

 

[Not-so Slick Chicken]

Holy moly! That is a big em! I was hoping one of their first eggs would be a fairy egg (so far, no fairy egg). A triple yolk would have to be massive - poor girl. Our girl who laid this one isn't very big! I was like, "THAT CAME OUT OF YOU!?!?!"

I feel bad for my birds when they have those massive eggs
Or when they lay too many days in a row