What is the biggest egg your chicken has laid and what breed laid it?

[bruceha2000]

I think the USDA needs to extend their egg size names. Jumbo is > 71 and everything bigger is still Jumbo. Isn't that kind of unfair to the girls who put out REALLY big eggs?

The "breaks" are every 7 grams:
There is Large and X-Large so why not X-Jumbo? That would be > 78 grams but still not cover the biggest eggs (98 and 104) from my BAs by 2 or 3 "size steps".
We could have Huge at > 85g and X-Huge > 92g.
Gee still not enough so:
MASSIVE at > 99 and X-MASSIVE at > 106g

Hopefully that would cover all chickens!

Bruce

 

[Cjsgnn]

Your chickens are all wimps

I weigh in grams. The biggest was 104 grams or 3.65 oz. I think that would be XXXXJumbo if there were such a thing. This last May from my bigger Black Australorp. She followed that with an egg every day for the next 4 days in the low 60g range though we would have been understanding if she took a day off after that monster. We kept telling her "Zorra - cut it out with the huge eggs!!!!" Can't be good for her. Her average size is ~68g or 2.9 oz (solidly XL) but every once in a while she'd throw a massive one (mid 80s and up), always double yolk. Never had a triple, that would be cool. She just started back up last week after moulting in mid November and so far has laid reasonable 66g to 70g eggs. Only 3 eggs so far, we will see.
The other BA averaged 61.3g (2.2 oz) until she stopped a week before moult (2 weeks ago!!) but she tossed a 98g (3.5g)

5 days before her last egg. She's my best layer at an average of 4.5 a week since she started. Of course how that holds up will depend on how long before she restarts. She'll still be a super chicken in my flock, chosen more for diversity than max eggs, even if she goes 3+ months like some of the others.

Bruce

Biggest one I've ever seen/held!

 

[Brian and judith]

I was trying to find somewhere to show off my XXL eggs!! I know it must be such hard work for my girls to lay these eggs and I wanted to share them with the world!!! About once each week I get eggs that are double yolk and HUGE!! Here is one of the smaller eggs as an example! (I just recently decided to measure them.)

This is laid by my chicken - Especial - She is a Rhode Island Red.



I can't wait to see everyone else's chicken eggs!!

3.4 oz yesterday. Double yolker. The biggest before that was a 2.9 oz.