maran's egg size

ginasmarans

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13 Years
Jan 15, 2007
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when my marans(cuckoo) begin laying, the eggs are usually a good size already. No little pullet eggs there. Is that typical of the breed?
 
My cuckoos have always laid good size eggs from the beginning. I've got 2 blues that started off smaller and their eggs are still smaller. My wheatens aren't laying yet, but the eggs they came from were good sized.
 
Now that my Black Coppers have been laying for a while, their eggs are often too big to fit in cartons.

Here's the one I got yesterday, with a couple "standard" eggs for comparison:

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It seems like everyone has large maran eggs. What the heck is wrong with my birds? They have been laying for a month or so and the eggs are medium size....if I'm lucky! I love the deep brown color though. The birds are some of my largest and I get wimpy eggs. All my other birds lay HUGE eggs.
 

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