Super Jumbo

[mossyroo]

The egg on the left is a jumbo from the store and the one on the right is one of ours. If we had ducks I would suspect 1 snuck in to the chicken nest.

 

[junebuggena]

Probably a double yolker, they are very common for new layers.

 

[mossyroo]

Thought new layers were supposed to start small.

 

[bobbi-j]

Do they free range? Could you have missed smaller, "starter" eggs? In the past, I have also had new layers lay double-yolkers. I kind of miss them when they get their production line sorted out and they start laying "normal" eggs.

 

[junebuggena]

Their single yolk eggs are small. The double yolk eggs are huge. Both are very normal. And a pullet may lay a small, single yolk egg one day, and a huge double yolker the next. It can take a few weeks or even months for the laying system to start operating consistently.

 

[mossyroo]

Do they free range? Could you have missed smaller, "starter" eggs? In the past, I have also had new layers lay double-yolkers. I kind of miss them when they get their production line sorted out and they start laying "normal" eggs.

I have 3 groups. A dozen adult hens that free range regularly. There are 8 chicks about 2 MO that were raised by 2 of those hens - 4 each. 5 of the chicks go out with the hens and 3 seem to have no interest in leaving the coop/run. Then I have 13 of what I call the tweens that are about at POL. They also have no interest in heading out to the pasture even though the same door is available to them.