The huge egg

I went to the chicken coop to gather the eggs this afternoon...


What an egg!!! ( photo / image / picture from carolyn keiper's Garden )

can you believe the size of this one? I hope she feels okay.




( photo / image / picture from carolyn keiper's Garden )

 

Holy cow, what a huge egg!!

 

Bet that one has a double yolk! Every once in a while one of my girls gets ambitious and lays a really large egg. Then she spends the rest of the day telling everyone about it!
However, I don't think any of my ladies ever got THAT ambitious!

 

How is she walking?

 

Looks like a duck was visiting the hens. Or perhaps you have a duck in hens clothing?

Jerry

 

All I can do is chuckle at everyone's responses.

 

Great results Carolyn's Chicken,..as Jane said,..bet its a double yoke!.

 

I"ll let everyone know as soon as I crack it. I have heard of triple yolk eggs, but have never gotten one. It is huge though! I went to the coop to feed chickens this morning and got another surprise.


under achiever and over achiever egg ( photo / image / picture from carolyn keiper's Garden )

 

Well, maybe the two chickens decided to make two eggs between them and just found it easier this way.

 

With the contrasting egg sizes you could say a feast or a famine!,..it would be interesting to place both eggs under a broody hen,..that's of course if they are fertile,..do you have a Cockerel?.

 

Hi Philip, Yes I do. I have 3 roosters, although I don't know how productive they really are. My sister took 4 eggs for a broody hen and only 1 of them was fertile. I don't think either of them would produce a chick though. Usually the really little eggs don't have a defined yolk, just some yellow cloudiness at the center.

 

I suppose you can't tell if under achiever and over achiever are the same hen?

Jerry

 

Nope, out of 60ish hens,no guess whatsoever.