Standard/LF Cochin Egg Size at Maturity?

[LateBirdFarms]

Last week my darling LF Cochin, Goose, started laying for me at just over 9months. These tiny little torpedo eggs with a beautiful pinkish shell, 5 so far, all about the same size.
So... Goose is my largest chicken, weighing in just a smidge under 7lbs, but up until yesterday, she laid the smallest eggs I've ever gotten, half the size of my production red's eggs. Please tell me these are pullet eggs and they're bound to get bigger! This is my first cochin and I was a little underwhelmed at her eggs... my reds are half her size and their first eggs were nowhere near as small as hers, the size bounced around a whole lot for the first 2months, from medium eggs to extra-oh-my-gosh-how-did-she-not-split-in-half-laying-that-large, to large eggs and back and forth between large and double yoke large. I've seen some conflicting posts where the answer was chickens usually don't change eggs size THAT much from their pullet egg, but can that be right in her case? Is Goose going to lay dainty little things like my Hamburg x Silkie crosses laid for me yesterday and today for the first time, her eggs really weren't much bigger than their firsts. (My twin girls Fizgig and Ittybitty, both 16weeks, both started laying within a day of each other, the cutest prettiest little eggs, one a beautiful cream colour with white speckling, and white with pale cream spotting!)

Do all pullets eggs fluctuate like my production red's as they get the hang of things? Or should I expect tiny torpedoes from my biggest girl for good?

.Goose, the LF Cochin (8months)

IttyBitty (Left) & Fizgig (Right) - Hamburg x Silkies

Goose and one of the twins for size comparison

 

[CindyinSD]

My Cochins lay medium to small eggs. I got them for broodiness but while a couple have started, none have persisted. I have one left. They're beautiful birds and I don't mind small/medium eggs, but two were just mean, so they're in the freezer.

If large eggs are important to you, you'll want to stick with specialty egg laying breeds not dual purpose heritage types. Ironically, the skinny, flighty gals, esp the hybrids, are the ones that will give you lots of jumbo eggs.

 

[LateBirdFarms]

My Cochins lay medium to small eggs. I got them for broodiness but while a couple have started, none have persisted. I have one left. They're beautiful birds and I don't mind small/medium eggs, but two were just mean, so they're in the freezer.

If large eggs are important to you, you'll want to stick with specialty egg laying breeds not dual purpose heritage types. Ironically, the skinny, flighty gals, esp the hybrids, are the ones that will give you lots of jumbo eggs.

Oh, I've got enough layers to make up for the half sizer, and I wouldn't trade Goose for the world. But I was certainly shocked that my massive fluffball laid such tiny eggs! I was sure for the first two that it had to be someone else laying, and was getting worried my blue layers weren't laying blue, so I watched and no, it was definitely Goose! I've got dreams of broody hatching next year, so that's what I originally wanted her for... but that was my definite confusion, that my skinny leghorn shaped reds put out extra large eggs, my littler reds put out large eggs... and my giant gluttonous fluff ball lays like a bantam! My husband will certainly grumble over why we're putting so much feed into her so I was hoping I'd avoidthat conversation by explaining that they'd get bigger, but he'll hopefully understand next year when I won't be brooding chicks in the sunroom!

 

[CindyinSD]

Yes, it's weird. The big ones (the ones I've read about in hatchery descriptions anyway) lay "medium" eggs. That's a euphemism for "really pretty small". They'll probably get a little bigger; mine seemed to gradually grow a bit as they got older and after a pause they're smaller again and grow larger again through the season.