One of my girls layed a massive egg

[Quailguy728]

Almost twice the size as normal and just under twice the weight.

On the left 12.5grams and the right, a whopping 22grams! I couldn't believe the poor girl layed it!

From the Older breeding flock. do you guys think she'll be okay? Shes about a year and a half old i believe.

Im shocked by the size but i hope shes okay. Haha

 

[Animals45]

She will definitely be fine

 

[Little Jerry Seinfeld]

Wow! My chickens do stuff like that all the time, but if i get a strange quail egg it's usually tiny. I would hollow it out and save it i collect hollow eggs from my flock everytime they lay a unique one. Please Say if it has a double yolk inside too!
This chicken egg had an entire other egg inside it lol

 

[Quailguy728]

Ive actually been saving my shells for crafts! And when i blew the egg out, I'm almost certain that there were two yolks in there, although it is possible it was just one massive yolk.

Same bird actually laid another last night that was 19.2grams. I was told this small flock I got was just coturnix quail, but their average egg weight is 12grams. Is it possible these are jumbo ?

 

[Little Jerry Seinfeld]

Ive actually been saving my shells for crafts! And when i blew the egg out, I'm almost certain that there were two yolks in there, although it is possible it was just one massive yolk.

Same bird actually laid another last night that was 19.2grams. I was told this small flock I got was just coturnix quail, but their average egg weight is 12grams. Is it possible these are jumbo ?

What crafts are you going to be making? So far all I've done with mine is put them in large vases for display with a few feathers.

 

[Quailguy728]

Kind of hard to describe, but it would be like a tiny bird house/coop with a sold bottom back and roof, (maybe a peaked roof) and little posts on the sides. And then sitting in that, some timothy hay, or straw rather (something that will keep for a while) shaped into a nest with a few eggs inside.

I figure it may be a big hit around my town come Easter, haha.

 

[Little Jerry Seinfeld]

Kind of hard to describe, but it would be like a tiny bird house/coop with a sold bottom back and roof, (maybe a peaked roof) and little posts on the sides. And then sitting in that, some timothy hay, or straw rather (something that will keep for a while) shaped into a nest with a few eggs inside.

I figure it may be a big hit around my town come Easter, haha.

That sounds so cute !

 

[Quailguy728]

Another 20.56 gram egg a few days ago. Is it normal for regular coturnix to lay eggs that large? (Google has given me an answer, but just wondering what some real world experiences would be) Should I assume this hen has a little Jumbo genetics in her or something? I've been weighing my eggs more frequently since then, and theyre usually around the 12-15 gram mark. After a google search it says average for coturnix is around 8-10grams give or take. What are your real world experiences though? Would you expect eggs around 12-15 grams from your quails, or does that seem to be on the high end, and I should assume these quail hen are jumbos?

 

[CoturnixComplex]

Another 20.56 gram egg a few days ago. Is it normal for regular coturnix to lay eggs that large? (Google has given me an answer, but just wondering what some real world experiences would be) Should I assume this hen has a little Jumbo genetics in her or something? I've been weighing my eggs more frequently since then, and theyre usually around the 12-15 gram mark. After a google search it says average for coturnix is around 8-10grams give or take. What are your real world experiences though? Would you expect eggs around 12-15 grams from your quails, or does that seem to be on the high end, and I should assume these quail hen are jumbos?

I have a hen that did it 3-4 times (even bigger difference than your pic) when she was maturing and then stopped. Also the one prone to egg shell deficiencies even with extra calcium, interestingly, so she got pulled from breeding rotation.

But yes, it is "normal" in that having it happen is nothing to stress about.

 

[CoturnixComplex]

Also, I have just as big of variation in egg sizes as I do in bird sizes, and they are not proportional, so that's my only observation about that so far.