Humongous Egg!!!!!

[upstater]

My little White Leghorn laid this egg today.... what size is this considered? It doesn’t fit in an egg carton ! Lol

 

[TJAnonymous]

Hey BYC Mods....we should start a "Biggest Egg" leaderboard (by breed, of course - chicken, duck, quail, etc....) where people can post their humongous eggs. We can provide measurements & weight. Let's see what's out there!

 

[sourland]

Ouch!

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

That looks like a goose egg...

 

[Painted Calls]

Do you have a food scale? I'm curious about how much it weighs.

That thing is a WHOPPER. Poor little momma that laid it.

 

[Coops Dad]

Marans, Legbar, Ameracauna, Andalusian, mystery mixes, lol.

 

[donna1369]

I don’t have a food scale here just a postage one and it weighs 3.5oz

I had one the same size either 83 or 87 grams over 3oz. Not big enough to be Guinness book of world records yet.
The heaviest egg reported to have been laid by a hen is one of 454 g (16 oz), with a double yolk and double shell, laid by a White Leghorn at Vineland, New Jersey, USA, on 25 February 1956. Poor hen!! That gotta hurt

 

[TJAnonymous]

A largest egg contest would be fun

Yes, it could be.... But I don't know that we could make it a "contest" per se since big eggs aren't laid on demand. ha ha... That's why I suggested a leaderboard where people could submit their pictures, sizes, weights, etc... as they get one. It would be interesting to see who stays on top of the leaderboard and what their eggs look like.

 

[Coops Dad]

We got one too. Unless you have the hands of a pixie, yours is bigger.

 

[NZChookdom]

How funny - I just found a super large egg yesterday in the box, too. Powers of deduction say it is Barnie the Barnevelder, though almost twice the size. Well, I may be exaggerating. But still, really big! Don't think it is a new layer and the other 5 are definitely accounted for.