You HAVE to see this egg! From meat bird

[chicks4kids]

She wants to make sure it's not HER on the plate!!

 

[Imp]

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So true & So funny

Impie

 

[impis]

I had this rather large egg from one of our ex-battery hens. She regularly laid eggs of this size - and they were all SINGLE yolked.

 

[knjinnm]

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Hi,
Is your meatie a cornishX?
How often is the hen laying?
Putting her with your LF brahma rooster would be a good cross, brahma's are supposed to be average layers and as you stated are big birds.

Joe

 

[trunkman]

my first flock were meaties and they laid huge eggs but didn't lay for long. I bought them off of craigs list, the guy told me they were white rocks and just started laying, They laid for about 4 months and stopped when I introduced new chicks and about 2 months later they started dieing off, so no more meaties for me...

 

[gritsar]

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Hi,
Is your meatie a cornishX?
How often is the hen laying?
Putting her with your LF brahma rooster would be a good cross, brahma's are supposed to be average layers and as you stated are big birds.

Joe

The rescues are cornish Xs, Cobb on Cobb's. Their rooster is a turken. My brahma roo has his own flock and the two roos pretty much stick to their own girls.
These meaties were culls from a commercial broiler house. They have a life here for however long they shall live.
My brahma girls are actually very good layers. 4 to 5 eggs a week, in their second year.

 

[tornado8070]

That egg is huge!! Surprisingly enough my Rhode Island Reds began laying the other day and the first egg I got was a double yoker. Although it wasnt anywhere near that big.

 

[Knock Kneed Hen]

Okay, I'm officially a dumb blonde....I thought meaties were only cockerels

Guess they have to come from somewhere...

 

[gritsar]

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[gritsar]

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Okay, keep in mind I'm not laughing at you - I'm laughing with you, but...............