One of my girls layed a massive egg

[paneubert]

I can't find a bunch of my photos, but this is one I saw a couple years ago from one of my birds.

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[Quailguy728]

I can't find a bunch of my photos, but this is one I saw a couple years ago from one of my birds.

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Were they jumbos or regular coturnix? Thats a nice looking egg though! Nice even spotting.

 

[paneubert]

Were they jumbos or regular coturnix? Thats a nice looking egg though! Nice even spotting.

Just regular size coturnix.

 

[Little Jerry Seinfeld]

Good grief what huge eggs! My Q's are more likely to lay small eggs, i have never had a large one! My last flock did occasionally lay lovely blue eggs. But my new ones (their daughters) haven't yet. I'm going to have to go dig out my ounce scale and find out the egg weights soon.

 

[Quailguy728]

Theyre only coming on the rare occasion. Maybe closer to when theyre getting a fresh batch of crushed shell? (I may be guilty of trying to catch them up from the last day that they were low on shell )

Thats when my first one came. About 3 days after adding their shells into their diet. Maybe a response to possibly too much calcium? (Instead of making an overly thick egg, which would only serve to make hatching harder, they process that extra calcium into a bigger shell?)

I also supplement them with extra fine limestone, which they dust bath in, and peck at (limestone is also a calcium source i believe? Correct me if im wrong).

Those are the only things i can think that may be specific to my quail and COULD be causing the occasional larger egg. But i really have no idea. Like coturnix said, its all different shapes, sizes, and colours if you just accept it as the fluke egg, which it just as easily could be.