Our first Double Yolker!!! Poor girl...

[Hen Daddy]

I think our buff orpington layed it, not sure though. I was so surprised to see such a huge egg in the nest box. I'm still amazed at how big it is! I want to hold it, and treasure it. I do want to eat it, but not yet...maybe after the novelty of it has worn off!

Anyways here are some pictures of it! The first two pictures are off a normal sized egg from Ms. Orpy:

I was playing around with my camera for this first one:

All of my eggs from yesterday with the beast!

~Caran

 

[msgenie516]

Hi,

That is some BIG egg! I'm hoping for your sake that it's a double-yolker but I've had extraordinarily large eggs turn out to have a single yolk. And it's the extra white, not the yolk, that made the eggs so large! I would love to get a double yolk but not even one yet, even though I have about 28 decent layers. Let us know how it turns out and good luck! Genie

 

[minifarm8]

I'm just thinking

!OUCH!

 

[hottexaschick]

We usually get one jumbo egg a week. I always expect to see one of my girls doing a slow, stiff, wide leg walk around the yard that day.

You mom's know the walk I'm talkin' about

 

[lady chicken whisperer]

My dad had chickens when he was growing up and he would go out to the barn to find one HUGE egg, like the size of a goose egg, and then the hen that laid it would die the next day......

Ive had bantam eggs with two yolks before

 

[Rte.66_chicks]

Off topic, but the first one reminds me of how the sun with sunspots looked through a telescope (with a solar filter, of course) when I was teaching astronomy.

 

[Hen Daddy]

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Oh no don't say that!!!! She's still alive, but she didn't lay an egg yesterday...We will see about today.

As for the yolks, yup 2! We ate them this morning with 2 banty eggs. Yummmm!!!