SUDDEN change in egg size--JUMBO

[journey11]

I just got back from the coop and today I found 3 jumbo blue eggs from my EE's, which are only 21 1/2 weeks old and have only been laying for 3 weeks. I mean, this came on overnight. Yesterday and all prior eggs were small, about the size of a golf ball.

One of the eggs was elongated and the pointy end was very bloody. I cracked it open--it was a double yolker. My concern is, does this put them at risk for problems such as prolapsed vent? These girls are still very small! My Brahmas are 17 MONTHS old and only recently began giving me jumbo eggs. I had already let them out for the afternoon, so I couldn't catch them to examine them yet. For all that blood, could she have ripped her vent? (I'm thinking chicken equivalent of a petite woman delivering a 12 lb. baby!)

 

[fordmommy]

Good Questions. Bump.

 

[crazyhen]

Sometimes my little comets do that. Their hormone levels have not stablized yet. You can get some tiny and some dble ones. Check her tomorrow for vent trouble. Last year I had one that did that too many times and had a prolapse. That, I don't think is the norm. But just keep check on them. Most times they settle off. Gloria Jean

 

[phrogg]

I just figured I would bump this thing up.
My hens started laying recently an dI've got a double yolker too. And some very big eggs shortly after small ones as i would expect. What I did not expect was to find a perfectly spherical 3/4 inch diamter egg laying in my stone/dirt walkway. It was ok tasting, tiny little yolk.... maybe 1/4".... and almost retained it's shape after cracked but that may just be a function off egg white surface tension with less than normal weight?!?!??
Weird anyway, my birds got into some of my elderberries a couple days before the douple yolker but I didn,'t think that would make sense given the surely longer than two day period it takes for an egg to develop inside the hen. Enough rambling, happy egging.

 

[cmom]

When my birds started laying I got double yokers a lot. Now that they are older I get one every once in a great while.

 

[journey11]

Thanks for the responses!

I checked the girls this evening and I think I know who laid the bloody egg. She had a small area of (bruising/busted blood vessel?) visible from the outside, but I couldn't tell anything more. She seemed fine otherwise...I will check her again tomorrow.

I am just really surprised at the size of the eggs. (I think they were surprised too!)