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84g Egg, has anyone else seen an egg this big.

  • 25-09-2013 7:40pm
    #1
    azul
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 91 ✭✭


    I have ten free range laying hens that I got only a month ago. It's my first time keeping hens. In the past week there has been two identical 84gram eggs in a space of four days. I've never seen anything like it. The egg box won't close. On a a quick internet search I see a jumbo egg weighs 71g's plus. Has anyone else seen an egg this big.
    Thanks for reading.


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  • #2
    CJhaughey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,907 ✭✭✭✭CJhaughey


    azul wrote: »
    I have ten free range laying hens that I got only a month ago. It's my first time keeping hens. In the past week there has been two identical 84gram eggs in a space of four days. I've never seen anything like it. The egg box won't close. On a a quick internet search I see a jumbo egg weighs 71g's plus. Has anyone else seen an egg this big.
    Thanks for reading.
    Often with older hens the eggs get big, really big.
    We used to have some that produced massive eggs that wouldn't fit into an egg carton, but Mr Fox dug under the Coop and took them all one night.


  • #3
    Ding Dong
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 230 ✭✭Ding Dong


    i have a couple of black sussex who regularly lay 90g + eggs so 71+ isnt unusual, just not standard for supermarkets. 100g+ is significant


  • #4
    Aghoney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46 ✭Aghoney


    We had a 109g egg a week ago, with three normal sized yolks in it. Average egg size for us is around 60g.


  • #5
    azul
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 91 ✭✭azul


    Aghoney wrote: »
    We had a 109g egg a week ago, with three normal sized yolks in it. Average egg size for us is around 60g.
    That's BIG!! Pity you cracked it though, you could have blown out the yolk and kept the shell in tact. Now no one will believe you:)


  • #6
    OldRio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,260 ✭✭✭OldRio


    Aghoney wrote: »
    We had a 109g egg a week ago, with three normal sized yolks in it. Average egg size for us is around 60g.

    Impressive. And some people say size isn't important!
    ;)


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  • #7
    Birdnuts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,807 ✭✭✭Birdnuts


    Aghoney wrote: »
    We had a 109g egg a week ago, with three normal sized yolks in it. Average egg size for us is around 60g.

    Was that with a RIR??


  • #8
    azul
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 91 ✭✭azul


    Birdnuts wrote: »
    Was that with a RIR??
    What's an RIR??


  • #9
    Aghoney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46 ✭Aghoney


    RIR is a Rhode Island Red, a very prolific and reliable breed of layers. Our 109g egg was probably from one of the few remaining hens from a batch of meat birds that we raised this summer. We processed the cockerels in June, but we didn't get to the hens until had already started laying. Massive birds, sometime laying massive eggs.


  • #10
    aonb
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    OP, until a hen gets settled into the whole laying thing, she may have a few 'odd' eggs - big eggs/double yolkers (two eggs at once in production)/soft shells etc. Dont wish too hard for big eggs - they can cause the hen to Prolapse, which is NOT nice - they can also cause Egg Peritonitis which is often fatal.
    You can help shell quality by providing calcium by giving them (back) eggshells - rinse the shells, pop in the microwave for 2 mins to harden them up, then break them into tiny pieces & the hens will gobble them up


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