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!

 

[Finchbreeder]

if I understand correctly - fairy or pullett eggs are like teenager eggs or beginner eggs.

 

[Nabiki]

if I understand correctly - fairy or pullett eggs are like teenager eggs or beginner eggs.

That's what pullet eggs are, but fairy eggs are the super tiny ones. Older layers sometimes lay those too. New layers are just more likely to lay weird eggs in general.

 

[gummylick]

Here we go, a week or so into laying and the size difference between my jumbo covey and the fawn mix (italian/manchurian/pearl) is becoming less apparent. It's noticeable but not a huge difference.