My girls have been laying now (14 of them) for close to 3 weeks, when will my eggs get bigger? I have production reds and CA whites?? I was so happy today to get 11 eggs!!
Nice eggs, they will get larger in time. After the first molt the eggs will be larger, however they will increase in size through the first year of laying before they molt. Most pullets will lay through the winter and after their rest from the molt will lay larger eggs, although it may not be daily. bigzio
Dang, those look pretty good to me! I was smitten w/ out pullet eggs. So much so that I'm wanting ot get banties so I can have smaller eggs!
We have three stages of chickens. Our oldest lay large eggs, the middle are laying small and the third should start in December. We give most of our large eggs away to friends and family or use for baking, we prefer the smaller eggs any day especailly for our egg poacher, large doesn't necessary mean better.
It'll probably take at least several months before they are consistantly laying Large size (over 2 ounces). I find people who bake prefer the Large size, while people who want them for eating fresh prefer the Medium size. spot
I started an egg production chart as soon as mine started laying. I weigh them, and log in how many and what the weights were each day (this is easy, since I only have 6). Mine are in their third full week of laying, and they are now consistently laying 1.8 - 1.85 oz. eggs. When they started, I had one as little as 1.25 oz., most were 1.4, and they've gotten a little bigger each week. Still "medium" sized, though!
