Massive Chicken Egg!

[Solanacae]

I just have to take a moment to crow a little bit about a new hen of mine. She’s a hatchery sex-linked Black Marans (cuckoo over black copper), gifted to me by a friend who was downsizing her flock. Only the friend thought she was laying different colored eggs! Her eggs were so large I weighed them out of curiosity, the three I got were all around 2.65 oz, which is plenty big for a chicken egg. She stopped laying because she’d been moved to a new home, and today she started back up again. I’m going to have to get a new carton specifically for jumbo or duck eggs because hers just don’t fit!

 

[H-B-O]

 

[kgallego]

I just have to take a moment to crow a little bit about a new hen of mine. She’s a hatchery sex-linked Black Marans (cuckoo over black copper), gifted to me by a friend who was downsizing her flock. Only the friend thought she was laying different colored eggs! Her eggs were so large I weighed them out of curiosity, the three I got were all around 2.65 oz, which is plenty big for a chicken egg. She stopped laying because she’d been moved to a new home, and today she started back up again. I’m going to have to get a new carton specifically for jumbo or duck eggs because hers just don’t fit!

Not trying to rain on your parade or anything, but someone posted an egg just a day or two ago that was 4.43 oz.

 

[Brooks_]

Not trying to rain on your parade or anything, but someone posted an egg just a day or two ago that was 4.43 oz.

Wasn't that a duck egg tho?

 

[Flockincrazy]

I just have to take a moment to crow a little bit about a new hen of mine. She’s a hatchery sex-linked Black Marans (cuckoo over black copper), gifted to me by a friend who was downsizing her flock. Only the friend thought she was laying different colored eggs! Her eggs were so large I weighed them out of curiosity, the three I got were all around 2.65 oz, which is plenty big for a chicken egg. She stopped laying because she’d been moved to a new home, and today she started back up again. I’m going to have to get a new carton specifically for jumbo or duck eggs because hers just don’t fit!

I have 2 young ones that lay huge eggs like that one lays double yolkers everyday

 

[kgallego]

Wasn't that a duck egg tho?

It was a chicken egg. I'm mistaken - it was 3.9 oz. Here it is:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/biggest-egg-ive-ever-seen.1451295/#post-24156142

 

[Brooks_]

It was a chicken egg. I'm mistaken - it was 3.9 oz. Here it is:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/biggest-egg-ive-ever-seen.1451295/#post-24156142

Poor girl. Bless her vent.

 

[Geena]

It was a chicken egg. I'm mistaken - it was 3.9 oz. Here it is:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/biggest-egg-ive-ever-seen.1451295/#post-24156142

You're probably thinking of the one I posted, it was 4.4oz.

That's a big one!

 

[KingD]

I just have to take a moment to crow a little bit about a new hen of mine. She’s a hatchery sex-linked Black Marans (cuckoo over black copper), gifted to me by a friend who was downsizing her flock. Only the friend thought she was laying different colored eggs! Her eggs were so large I weighed them out of curiosity, the three I got were all around 2.65 oz, which is plenty big for a chicken egg. She stopped laying because she’d been moved to a new home, and today she started back up again. I’m going to have to get a new carton specifically for jumbo or duck eggs because hers just don’t fit!

That's one generous chicken!
Butt must be stinging

 

[Solanacae]

Not trying to rain on your parade or anything, but someone posted an egg just a day or two ago that was 4.43 oz.

I’m in no competition, it’s just a personal best.