Empty Egg Yesterday, MASSIVE egg to Day!!

**shirlthegirl43** · 12-03-2009, 04:17 PM

Bet that made her eyes water!!! Puff laid a huge egg one day last week - no surprise that she missed the next day!

**minskey** · 12-03-2009, 04:19 PM

It was from one of my Amber Links, I wouldn't be surprised if that was her lot for the week! Bless

**shirlthegirl43** · 12-03-2009, 04:20 PM

Love the dotty egg cups by the way

**minskey** · 12-03-2009, 04:24 PM

Oh they are from Tescos called 'Circus' very appropriate considering my background

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**dogfighter** · 12-03-2009, 04:56 PM

That sounds like a double yolk egg to me. It happens occasionaly to our chickens and is more ususal when they are younger. If it happens often it can be concidered a undesirable trait because the double yolk eggs cannot hatch.

**minskey** · 12-03-2009, 05:38 PM

Hi dogfighter,
can't birds have twins then?

**Hilary B** · 12-03-2009, 06:00 PM

Double yolkers will develop a bit, but I don't know of any that have ever hatched 2 live chicks. The theory (I am told) is that there is only one airspace, so the second chick doesn't get a chance to breath before hatching.....

**Eyren** · 12-03-2009, 06:33 PM

That will almost certainly be a double yolker, but sometimes the really big ones have a second, standard-sized egg inside because the first egg didn't get laid and a second one formed around it. Young pullets are a bit prone to these weirdnesses, because the laying cycle is quite complicated and it can sometimes take a little while for their bodies to get the hang of it!

**MaureenHall** · 12-03-2009, 06:38 PM

This is just amazing!! 2 chicks from 1 egg Two Chicks From One Egg!

**minskey** · 12-03-2009, 07:28 PM

Hi Muareen,

That is amazing, so much more complicated than mammal!

**Pickle** · 13-03-2009, 06:26 PM

I can't get over the size of that egg! Showed Hubbie and he was amazed too!
Have you cracked it? Was it a double yolker as expected?

**pipscariad** · 13-03-2009, 08:35 PM

What a whopper! Bad mum that I am I can't remember how much our biggest egg weighed, but we did have some ginormous ones at first, including a triple yolker, which I didn't even realise was possible at the time. Yours could even be one....

Enjoy it, whatever you do with it, and be thankful you didn't have to lay it

!

**minskey** · 13-03-2009, 09:49 PM

Not done the deed yet, saving it for the week end. I've never seen a triple yolker, if it is i'm sad enough to take a pic!

**MaureenHall** · 14-03-2009, 10:06 AM

From the sublime to the ridiculous

Just been out to collect the first eggs of the day and this is just stoooooooopid! Last weekend I got a huge egg (102g), this morning the tiniest that one of mine has ever laid, just 17g. I'd love to know which of the girls is producing these

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