How heavy is your egg?

[cmom]

I lived just outside of Frankfurt Germany in the 70's.

 

[chkncrazy]

Hey everybody!!!!!!
As you can see from my pic I have leghorns as well, I've had chickens for over 30 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!!

 

[Fur-N-Fowl]

Our Light Sussex laid an egg that was 103 grams!

Was a double yolker!

Her 'normal' eggs weight about 65 - 70 grams.

 

[Ted_Harrell]

One of my leghorn mixes(Ideal 236) is just getting up to speed with her laying, but if she laid an egg that was 121 grams, she would probably be walking funny for the rest of the day

 

[DiYMama540]

I'm going to get a kitchen scale...TODAY! This has really sparked my interest...

 

[Papa John59]

Because of you all, my first post that reached the "Featured" list! Thanks everyone!

 

[casportpony]

I'm going to get a kitchen scale...TODAY! This has really sparked my interest...

You can weigh birds on them too!

 

[casportpony]

Because of you all, my first post that reached the "Featured" list! Thanks everyone!

Congrats, I think it's a wonderful thread!

 

[Ladies-Eight]

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.

Now you are talking about me! I'm beginning to forget at times at this age. I know how you feel.

 

[cmom]

No, talking about me...