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    Large eggs

    Hello,

    Could anyone let me know if they have had this problem. Black eyes is laying rather large eggs, started at 87 grms then 97, 111, just seam to be getting bigger she only lays them every 2 days or so with a normal one in between. I am in South West France so don't know if the heat has anything to do with it.
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    we got some isa browns about 6 weeks ago at POL. They started with smallish eggs and as expected they got bigger over the last few weeks. Day before yesterday one of our girls laid the biggest egg I have ever seen....116gms! It is double the size of what normally gets laid.

    We checked them all to see if anyone had a tear or was unwell but they all seem fine. Have noticed that there seems to be one less egg yesterday and today but think that's ok under the circumstances!

    Dont think it is anything to worry about if our girls are anything to go by!

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    • #3
      Poor Efel!

      apparently there is still a way to go to break any records:

      Poor Efel the pet chicken needed a bit of egging on for her latest effort. It took her a week of preparation and half an hour of pushing before she could unleash her creation on the world: an egg three times the size of a regular egg and one of the biggest ever recorded.

      Her owner, 11-year-old Gabrielle Needler, from Reigate, Surrey, was shocked when she saw the egg in the coop. She said: 'Efel didn't lay for a week and we wondered why. Then she laid this massive egg so she was obviously saving it all up. It took her half an hour to lay this one - normally it only takes about five minutes.'

      The egg weighed in at 194 grammes, or about 7oz. The family have written to Guinness to see if it is a record breaker, but have since learned that the biggest ever recorded was an egg-tastic 340grams, from an English hen in 1896.

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      • #4
        Oooooouuuuch

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        • #5
          Double and treble yolkers..........Yum!
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          to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

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          • #6
            One of our Rhodie girls' first egg weighed 93g, she's laid an even bigger one since, but I dropped it on the way home, so don't know what that weighed. She tends to lay every other day whereas her sisters are laying one a day, but eggs of a more normal size. She also laid 2 with soft shells within 20 minutes of each other. Her laying rhythm is obviously still all over the place. The large eggs tend to be double yolkers.
            Into each life some rain must fall........but this is getting ridiculous.

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            • #7
              Poor little Efel must have been very sore poor laydee
              Hayley B

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