Chicken bald back

[mullethunter]

I've never bothered before, but as I was about to use Penny's first two eggs af the year and had the scales out, I thought I'd weigh them. Her first is 45g and second 44g. She's a Wyandotte bantam.

 

How much do your girls eggs all weigh?

[percy049]

Ours usually weigh around 60g I think

[Cinnamonhot]

I have 5 different chickens and I get eggs varying from 35 grams to 49 grams. They started laying in December. I'm amazed they do everyday considering it's shorter days etc.

 

My chickens are:

Golden Pekin Bantam

Silver Pencilled Wyandotte

Silver Spangled Hamburg

Leghorn

White Buff Laced Wyandotte

[Minnie&Moose]

Our pekin eggs are around the 40g mark, occasionally a bit larger, the elderly columbine has downsized to eggs around 65g (they used to be bigger but given she's nearly 6 and still laying 4-5 eggs/week we're not complaining), the young maran produces eggs of 67-75g, the young orp's eggs weigh in around 58-60g and haven't had anything from our cochin this year, but they were always around the 58-60g mark as well. I promise I don't weigh every single egg

[Cat tails]

I only weigh the eggs when baking. In most standard recipes one egg measures 50 g without shell, so I do weigh the eggs to make sure I don't add too little egg. My bantams eggs are between 40 and 50 g with shell. 50 being the bigger eggs.

Edited March 5, 2015 by Guest

[mullethunter]

Haven't had a chance to weigh a Pekin egg yet - they still don't think it's for them!

[Beantree]

Those are good sized eggs for a Wyandotte bantam Mullethunter. Our large fowl Wyandotte and Orpington eggs only weigh about 60-65g. Our TNN's regularly produce eggs around 75g and the biggest we ever had was from a hybrid green egg layer, a double yolker at 126g.

[mullethunter]

Yes I'm really happy with them. One is enough for me for lunch or breakfast and for baking I usually use 3 for every 2 in a recipe.

[Blackrocksrock]

Ours right now are mostly over 70g and sometimes nearer to 80g A Silver Amber and an Isa Brown are what I have now and production is in full swing

[mullethunter]

Whoppers!

[Blackrocksrock]

Yesterday 74g and 81g so no complaints - my hubby weighs them every day before we put them on the egg skelter!

[Blackrocksrock]

82g and 84g eggs today - the chickens have taken to going up into the field behind my house every day with the horses and 2 sheep that live there - they are getting more grass I think and having a ball - loads of worms from the molehills too so they are in great production! I am amazed at the sizes every day - almost too big to roll down my skelter - they need some help some times.