Quail Egg Size Differences

[gummylick]

The left most egg is from a "pharoah" jumbo, also I believe called "wild". The middle two are from my 2nd covey, a fawn collection with pearl fees, manchurian and italian coturnix. The one on right was a first egg laid by the 2nd covey.

 

[Susan Skylark]

The last one is probably a fairy or pullet egg, they can be pretty tiny just starting out. I wonder if your jumbo isn’t a double Yolker as well. If these are young birds weird eggs are normal the first few weeks. Anecdotally I got 30% weird eggs at 5 weeks of age on a 28% protein starter, on a 21% they start laying at 7 weeks and I haven’t gotten any weird ones, except my mutant hen that was laying soft shelled eggs daily (culled her for her own sake, egg peritonitis is a bad way to die). Now all you need are some blue ones!

 

[gummylick]

yeah that first egg was just odd i think cause it was her first. the 2 in middle are also young birds, 6 wks, just started laying. i think they're off to a good start! now the biggie, that's just the size my big girls lay lol. i have a few of those. these others aren't jumbos so i was interested in seeing the size difference.

now i gotta look up what a fairy egg/ pullet eggs are!