eggmaster Posted August 29, 2006 Share Posted August 29, 2006 I have three hens and they have all now laid their first eggs. Today Millie (a Meadowsweet ranger) laid her biggest egg yet - a whopper. I weighed it and it was 78 grammes. Is this unusual for a young hen? It was her fourth egg. Will they get even bigger Paul aged 11. ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin B Posted August 29, 2006 Share Posted August 29, 2006 People on the Forum have had some eggs over 100g! It may be a fluke but you certainly do get big eggs from time to time! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eyren Posted August 29, 2006 Share Posted August 29, 2006 When she started, Migsy laid a smallish one for 4-5 days then a big 70g+ egg, which turned out to be a double-yoker Since then, they've all been small-medium. It takes a while for a young pullet's cycle to settle down, so it's quite usual to get the occasional large one (or small one for that matter). I believe they do get to be a larger average size as the hen gets older (much as with human mothers and babies), but you don't tend to get double-yokers so often Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harveypup Posted August 30, 2006 Share Posted August 30, 2006 WOW Mine (or should I say Hilda and Vera's) started off at 37g in July and are averaging 57g or so at the moment. Hope it was tasty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JellyB Posted August 30, 2006 Share Posted August 30, 2006 I've never weighed my eggs (never thought of doing that) but Mabel laid a monster recently and it turned out to be a double yolker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aunty e Posted August 30, 2006 Share Posted August 30, 2006 We noticed the other day that all of ours have gotten much bigger. Maggie used to lay 63g every day, Dollie around 60g, Bonnie 58gish and Purdy somewhere around 51g. Now Maggie is regularly laying 74g eggs, with Dollie and Bonnie both laying eggs in the mid sixties and Purdy laying eggs which are aroung 60g. They're all around 9 months old. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 30, 2006 Share Posted August 30, 2006 We didn't realise just how big Belle and Yodas eggs had got, until Darling started laying a couple of weeks ago - she lays gorgeous little dinky eggs, compared with Belles big whoppers. But of course, Belle used to lay little dinky eggs as well, and as she has got older, her eggs have got bigger! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
