The Largest Egg - Contest!

[Fur-N-Fowl]

I can’t take part as I got no photos at the time but our biggest egg was 108 grams and was believed to have been laid by one of our Light Sussex hens!

Of course, it was a double yolker...shame it wasn’t a triple!

 

[hysop]

I don’t actually recommend them, they are prone to reproductive problems, die quite young, and I’ve had to deal with one very nasty prolapse that took a week to heal (stuffing the insides back inside and holding them there for 1/2hr at a time, multiple times a day) all of those girls are my rescues. And the mamas to my main laying flock, of olive eggers. If you’re just in it for massive numbers of eggs, and willing to cull and replace your birds every 2 years they are great from a business standpoint, but that’s not what I’m aiming for in my flock. I want a more sustainable one, not just a small scale commercial type egg operation. Or if you want to work with some rescues and provide them loving care and a chance at a decent life, for what they have left, they are nice birds andncan have wonderful personalities. My “normal” eggs for comparison
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I would love to rescue chickens. How do you go about doing that? Or is it just from people giving away their chickens who don’t want them anymore? I rescued a rooster from the street once. Best rooster ever.

I will probably just get regular Production Reds. Not the hybrid ones.

 

[DiYMama540]

I present to you a monster goose egg!!

Those are actually pretty big chicken eggs in the first pic for comparison! Also, I'm 5'9" so I have big man hands...huge egg!!
By the way, I risked my life for these photos just now, so you better enjoy!!

 

[Kris5902]

I would love to rescue chickens. How do you go about doing that? Or is it just from people giving away their chickens who don’t want them anymore? I rescued a rooster from the street once. Best rooster ever.

I will probably just get regular Production Reds. Not the hybrid ones.

I think pretty much all production red breeds are some form of hybrid, to increase production, as for the rescues, I took mine out of the coop of the family farm I live on. I “borrowed” them to keep a rooster company and never gave them back. But there are usually places in most states (I’m in Canada) from what I understand, where you can get ex battery hens that are ready to be culled for old age and dropping production (at 2!) and give them a life of grass and sunshine.

I don’t eat/sell that many eggs really...

 

[Kris5902]

I present to you a monster goose egg!!
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Those are actually pretty big chicken eggs in the first pic for comparison! Also, I'm 5'9" so I have big man hands...huge egg!!
By the way, I risked my life for these photos just now, so you better enjoy!!

Please tell me you didn’t just go battle a broody goose for that shot!

 

[DiYMama540]

Please tell me you didn’t just go battle a broody goose for that shot!

Worse, I had to make it past her gander!

 

[bruceha2000]

Please tell me you didn’t just go battle a broody goose for that shot!

Hey, it's a competition? Spoils don't go to the meek

No picture because she laid it back in June 2014 but Zorra (Black Australorp) laid a 114g egg. There were also a few in the 80s, 90s and 100s but fortunately she cut that silliness out and went back to L, XL and J, mostly L & XL.

 

[LikeTurkeys]

I don’t actually recommend them, they are prone to reproductive problems, die quite young, and I’ve had to deal with one very nasty prolapse that took a week to heal (stuffing the insides back inside and holding them there for 1/2hr at a time, multiple times a day) all of those girls are my rescues. And the mamas to my main laying flock, of olive eggers. If you’re just in it for massive numbers of eggs, and willing to cull and replace your birds every 2 years they are great from a business standpoint, but that’s not what I’m aiming for in my flock. I want a more sustainable one, not just a small scale commercial type egg operation. Or if you want to work with some rescues and provide them loving care and a chance at a decent life, for what they have left, they are nice birds andncan have wonderful personalities. My “normal” eggs for comparison
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Ah, I see. Yes, that's not very good. Like I said, the RIR in the first post died from internal laying, and she was always a great layer of large eggs. So I can see how the connection between large/lots of eggs and early death is made (she was only a little under 2 years old when she died). Beautiful eggs!

I can’t take part as I got no photos at the time but our biggest egg was 108 grams and was believed to have been laid by one of our Light Sussex hens!

Of course, it was a double yolker...shame it wasn’t a triple!

Hey, it's a competition? Spoils don't go to the meek

No picture because she laid it back in June 2014 but Zorra (Black Australorp) laid a 114g egg. There were also a few in the 80s, 90s and 100s but fortunately she cut that silliness out and went back to L, XL and J, mostly L & XL.

Wish you could! Slowly beginning to wonder if I should change the rules and allow posts with no pictures too.

I present to you a monster goose egg!!
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Those are actually pretty big chicken eggs in the first pic for comparison! Also, I'm 5'9" so I have big man hands...huge egg!!
By the way, I risked my life for these photos just now, so you better enjoy!!

Wow, that's huge You'll definitely win the goose egg section if I make one! Did you happen to weigh it?

 

[DiYMama540]

I haven't yet, but I definitely should!!

My guesstimate is 1lb!!

 

[Pennys Mama]

One of today's chicken eggs.... my largest ever yet. I'm not sure who laid it, but I'm 100% sure it wasn't one of my Bantam girls!