Hi,
Im so proud of my EE pullet (but a little worried)! She was the last to lay of my EE pullets (the other two started in November but this one waited until January). They were all hatched the very end of March, 2009, so they are late layers.
I knew this one wasnt laying as I witnessed the other two laying nice green eggs and all the others laying in various shades of brown and I was always missing one pullet egg every time I collected them, so it wasnt even like she was laying another color. Until recently, that is. One day in January, I saw her in a nest (the first time I ever noticed this) and she certainly looked like she was preparing to lay. She was doing the typical tossing of hay onto her back and shuffling around trying to get comfortable. I checked under her to make sure there were no eggs already in the nest (there werent) and came back in a few minutes and she was just leaving the nest. I again checked the nest and there was a LARGE ivory egg, which weighed in at 2.6 ounces. So she didnt lay a green egg but she made up for it by laying a large egg. After that, I regularly got 2.6 to 2.8 ounce ivory eggs. I thought they were unusually large for a pullet, but I was in for a big surprise!
Two days ago, I found this HUGE ivory egg, weighing 3.7 ounces or a bit over 105 grams! Yesterday, I found a 2.8 ounce ivory egg and today I found another HUGE egg, weighing exactly 106 grams! I used my jewelry scale to weigh these two so I could be very accurate. As you can see in the pictures, the first one turned out to be a very large double-yolker.
All my pullets laid and hers is the one shown in the upper right corner:
Hers is the second from the right, next to the very dark brown one that I get from one of my very old red hens (not sure what that one really is, but she was sold to me as a RIR retired from an egg farm):
This is how it looked when I cracked it open in a bowl:
I'm frying it up for DH's breakfast, it's upper left in the picture along with two of my "regular" eggs:
This is the girl that laid it:
I'm really happy about these beautiful eggs but a bit worried about my girl, who is only about 10 months old. I hope laying these huge eggs is not harmful to her but I certainly can't stop her!
Just had to share!
Genie
Im so proud of my EE pullet (but a little worried)! She was the last to lay of my EE pullets (the other two started in November but this one waited until January). They were all hatched the very end of March, 2009, so they are late layers.
I knew this one wasnt laying as I witnessed the other two laying nice green eggs and all the others laying in various shades of brown and I was always missing one pullet egg every time I collected them, so it wasnt even like she was laying another color. Until recently, that is. One day in January, I saw her in a nest (the first time I ever noticed this) and she certainly looked like she was preparing to lay. She was doing the typical tossing of hay onto her back and shuffling around trying to get comfortable. I checked under her to make sure there were no eggs already in the nest (there werent) and came back in a few minutes and she was just leaving the nest. I again checked the nest and there was a LARGE ivory egg, which weighed in at 2.6 ounces. So she didnt lay a green egg but she made up for it by laying a large egg. After that, I regularly got 2.6 to 2.8 ounce ivory eggs. I thought they were unusually large for a pullet, but I was in for a big surprise!
Two days ago, I found this HUGE ivory egg, weighing 3.7 ounces or a bit over 105 grams! Yesterday, I found a 2.8 ounce ivory egg and today I found another HUGE egg, weighing exactly 106 grams! I used my jewelry scale to weigh these two so I could be very accurate. As you can see in the pictures, the first one turned out to be a very large double-yolker.
All my pullets laid and hers is the one shown in the upper right corner:
Hers is the second from the right, next to the very dark brown one that I get from one of my very old red hens (not sure what that one really is, but she was sold to me as a RIR retired from an egg farm):
This is how it looked when I cracked it open in a bowl:
I'm frying it up for DH's breakfast, it's upper left in the picture along with two of my "regular" eggs:
This is the girl that laid it:
I'm really happy about these beautiful eggs but a bit worried about my girl, who is only about 10 months old. I hope laying these huge eggs is not harmful to her but I certainly can't stop her!
Just had to share!
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