Is this egg just big? Or is it a contender?

[ModernScientist]

I was outside working on my chicken coop and I heard one of my hens making an awful sound. Now as you folks know hens can get quite loud so I didn't think to much of it but when I went out to collect today's eggs I found the largest chicken egg I've ever seen.

This egg is 7.3 cm (2.87 in) long and 98 grams (3.46 oz). My question is: Is this egg just above average or could it have broken some local records?

I think it was laid by a silver laced wyandotte, but it could have been one of my barred rocks or buff orpingtons.

 

[Davaroo]

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I dont know about its being a contender, but I sure feel for the hen.

 

[rizq]

Here is my contender at 3-7/8 ounces (from a medium sized LF EE hen!). Poor girl. I candled it. It is not our first egg this size, but it is our first double yolker!

 

[Mahonri]

OUCH!

 

[MaggieRae]

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Beautiful egg! Massive though... Poor hen.

 

[Davaroo]

Good Lord! in your hand it is jynormous. The poor dear!

 

[MaggieRae]

rizq- Is it fertile?

 

[rizq]

It should be since we have 2 roos over 10 hens, but we have not cracked it open yet. I will have to check it when we do. If it was not a double yolker, I would consider setting it when my new bator gets here.

 

[cherig22]

It's funny, but all my large eggs are just large eggs now. In the beginning, some were doubles, but now they are just big singles. Go figure.

Cheri

 

[FisherMOM]

I have never weighed them or measured them...

but here are some of the ginormous eggs that my chicken has laid...

and the latest one, and by far a GIANT of an egg....next to a fart egg laid by my Cochin the week before.