Monster Egg Picture

[dacdeihl]

Here is an egg that I collected on Monday I think. It weighed 3 oz. The other two weighed in at around 2 oz.

 

[Peeper7]

I seem to get lots of these huge eggs... is this normal? Every time I get one all I can think of is "ouch." Some won't fit in the egg cartons.

 

[Plain Old Dee]

I used to have a white leghorn hen that layed double yolkers all the time. Her eggs were huge! I had heard that a hen that lays double yolkers won't lay them for long, but she laid one ever other day for five years, until the neighbor's dog got her.

 

[proudmama88]

OUCH.

Whoever is responsible for that one deserves some treats, poor girl.

 

[michickenwrangler]

Your chicken didn't lay those. A relic population of pterodactyls must have established a rookery in your coop.

 

[TDB]

sometimes when a chicken just starts laying you get bigger eggs but at about 1 year old they should lay only normal sized eggs

 

[cmom]

I got these eggs today. The one on the left weighs (large egg) 60 grams/2.11 ounces., the one on the right weighs (jumbo) 90 grams/3.17 ounces.

I weigh all of my eggs. Probably most people that do weigh their eggs, do it in ozs. I personally use grams.

Modern Sizes (USA)

Size Mass per egg
Jumbo, Greater than 2.5 oz. or over 69 g
Extra-Large, Greater than 2.25 oz. or 64-69 g

Large, Greater than 2 oz. or 56-63 g

Medium, Greater than 1.75 oz. or 49-55 g

Small, Greater than 1.5 oz. or 42-48 g

Peewee Less than 1.5 oz. or 42 g

 

[HBuehler]

Around Thanksgiving time we had a 100 gram egg..3.5 ounces then about a week later we had 2 new layers lay 75gram eggs in the same day.We also use grams not ounces for all of our eggs.

 

[jaboo81]

We have gotten about three of the Jumbo eggs out of my six hens. They are just over a year. The one layed with no shell was the wildest I have ever witnessed.

 

[cmom]

I just got my biggest egg ever. It weighed 96 grams/3.38 onces. The egg on the left weighs 60 grams/2.11 onces.

Here it is next to a fart egg.