Jumbo eggs?

[CARS]

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I think Niki posted some links but it's going to take some digging. I think she said something along the lines of "there is no recipe for A&M's".

I found it!!!!! https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=218348&p=2

 

[First To Hatch]

There is a size difference at least with the eggs I had they were they were 2 times sometimes 3 times the size of my normal sized birds' eggs.

 

[First To Hatch]

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True that I only know of 3 people with real big jumbos.

 

[First To Hatch]

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I know a guy with some real jumbo eggs I can give you contact info about I got a 0% hatch rate but that was my bators fault all his eggs were fertile on opening them.

 

[First To Hatch]

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Bigger eggs don't always mean bigger birds. Sam always said breed for wider breast ands nice plump birds when you pick them up, if looking at them they might look smaller then some other jumbos but wider breast means more breast meat right? So I'd be ok with breeding for the route.

 

[First To Hatch]

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Largest eggs don't mean largest full grown adult birds...

 

[First To Hatch]

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As I've said before... I really do believe that they were once true A&Ms with white meat and big birds but were out crossed with different types of coturnix and became nothing more but a color, so I must say that on that topic we will most likely always disagree.

 

[laputa]

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I know a guy with some real jumbo eggs I can give you contact info about I got a 0% hatch rate but that was my bators fault all his eggs were fertile on opening them.

I sent you a PM, yes I would love to get contact info!

 

[quailbrain]

It would be nice to find that mysterious Texas A&M around a pound. I just can't see it in my chicks though. My White with a black dot Texas is smaller than the Dark Range or Rosettas.

 

[protodon]

Well I got my jumbo coturnix eggs from the PO and compared them to some of my Texas A&M eggs and some of mine were just as big as the jumbo eggs. But eggs from my quail and the jumbo batch also varied greatly from very tiny to very large. So maybe ther is not consistent large egg layers. Of course of I am dealing with birds from only 2 sources.