Who lays biggest eggs?

[JudyMcKinn]

I am wondering which chickens lay the largest eggs? Actually, probably white leghorns? But who's next? Do brown leghorns lay a large egg also? They would be a little prettier. I would like to get some layers who lay a pretty good size egg.
I have recently acquired 8 RIR hens and a roo from a neighbor who is going into turkey raising in a big way, so can't have chickens on his place. They have been laying about a year, and still lay a smallish egg. Soon after they started laying for him, I got a couple dozen eggs from him and incubated them. Saved the pullets, and when they started laying, they laid a very small egg--about the size of my Silkies eggs, and they hadn't gotten any larger after a couple months, when I sold them. I had always thought RIR's laid a pretty good egg. comments? Thanks.

 

[ams3651]

i thought so too. id like to hear the reply as well.

 

[Jennyhaschicks]

I buy farm fresh eggs from down the road. She has a few varieties of hens and the biggest eggs come from the RIRs.

 

[silkiechicken]

My largest eggs come from production breeds such as leghorns, production red's and so on. However, the largest eggs, come the second year of laying.

 

[Buckguy20]

The biggest I have ever seen on a consistent basis were from a friends Turkens. You might check out the Henderson's Chicken Chart. It has egg size info there.

 

[cajunlizz]

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Sorry to hear that . Because I have several RIR's and all their eggs are large brown eggs .... EVEN the new layers are large eggs

 

[JudyMcKinn]

Hmmm. I just posted and it didn't show up. The Henderson chart doesn't show many listings with large eggs, does it? I can't imagine why my RIR's are laying such small eggs. The H. chart shows them as large egg layers, as well as a couple of you who are replying say you get large eggs from RIR's.
My neighbor/friend who gave me these got them as baby chicks from a farm store, who got them from a hatchery, I am sure. Strange!!???

 

[cajunlizz]

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How old are they ?

I know their 1st. few eggs are on the small to med. size , but after that , they are large .

 

[JudyMcKinn]

Liz, the 8 hens I was given have been laying since last summer. I guess they are about a year and a half old now. Still laying eggs pretty small, tho a little bigger than a silkie egg now, usually.

 

[cajunlizz]

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That is very weird . LET me show you a picture of my lil grand daughter holding 2 eggs from a NEW LAYER and to me they were kinda on the small size . BUT that sure changed QUICK .