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Hey everybody!!!!!! :frow:frow
As you can see from my pic I have leghorns as well, I've had chickens for over 30:old years and I've had almost every single breed you can imagine...and now that I don't need 40 or 50 eggs a day I settled on having just a handful of leghorns to supply my family and some friends with wonderful eggs.....I've had leghorns now for about 3 years and I can tell you from personal experience that sometimes they get on a Kick where they'll lay huge eggs for about a week or two and then they adjust!!!!!....just be careful maybe they're getting a lot of protein which can cause hefty eggs....I was feeding and all flock and the protein was pretty high and that's when I was getting larger eggs I switched to blue seal layer crumble and I don't give them too many treats actually no treats.... They do free range for a part of the day so they eat a lot of grass and whatever bugs they find, mine are about a year-and-a-half old now and they've been laying normal sized eggs, every once in awhile I get a biggun' lol.... Your girls are fairly young at 35 weeks so they could still be acclimating..... Either way congratulations and enjoy your eggs!!:bow:pop
 
DiYMama540 said:
I'm going to get a kitchen scale...TODAY! This has really sparked my interest...
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:highfive::yesss: You can weigh birds on them too!
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cmom said:
I agree, that why I use the </> less than/greater than average and I like to bake. All of my eggs weigh a little bit different. Since I sell most of my eggs I want the customers to have a mix but not all big eggs. My cartons are made of jumbo, xlg and lg eggs. When I get an overabundance of the sm/med eggs I put them in 18 pks and sell them for the same as the large dozen cartons. I have a few customers that like the smaller eggs. The small and medium eggs we usually eat or use in recipes. My pullets just started laying today so now I will have a lot of the sm/med eggs. Probably more than we can eat. This may sound gross but, I had a carton of eggs in my egg fridge. I didn't realize how old they were. I took them in the house and ate one. They were from my Leghorns from Easter. At Easter I separate the white eggs for people who want to color the eggs. I for got about them but they were still good and I ate them. I do rotate my eggs but put any cartons with deformed/cracked not customer friendly on a different shelf in the fridge and eat them myself or bake with them. That's what happens when you get old and forgetful.
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Now you are talking about me! I'm beginning to forget at times at this age. I know how you feel.
 

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