Uhh...my hen's GOT to be hurting after this massive egg

[HenSpa]

I could NOT believe the size of this egg from one of my RIs this morning!! Should I be worried? I'm posting some pics, showing it side-by-side to a normal RI egg and then next to a supermarket Jumbo egg. Yowza...first one of my chickens becomes a rooster, now one becomes an ostrich.

 

[msgenie516]

Hi,

What an egg! I recently got one of those (might not have been quite as large, but it was huge) from one of my RIR pullets that are about 6 months old and it was a double-yolker, my first! I think it is something that sometimes happens when they first begin to lay and nothing to worry about.

Congratulations! Genie

 

[Buster]

Hey I got one like that not too long ago that actually turned out to be an egg inside of an egg. Do you have any way of weighing it?

 

[HenSpa]

Yes, the regular brown egg weighed 2 oz. The big one weighed almost 3.5 oz.

 

[Buster]

Here's my biggest- it weighed 5 1/8 oz!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=123753

 

[HenSpa]

Yowza! That was a big egg! Turned out to be egg in egg, you say?

 

[HenSpa]

I feel like my hen needs a spa day...or at least some ointment.

 

[Buster]

Yeah it was an egg inside of an egg. There is a pic of when I cracked it further on in that thread. After seeing that, I was looking around for a dead hen, but I never did figure out who laid it.

 

[chickie momma di]

hi
wow that's some egg. my buff orph just did the same thing then she took a well deserved 2 days off (which she has never done).
it turned out to be a double yoker! delicious.

 

[mom'sfolly]

I think that girl needs a donut cushion. Nice egg!!!!