Wolfencharm
Hatching
- Sep 20, 2020
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Hi,
I've been raising chickens for 5 years, so still learning as new things come up. Recently moved from the city where I had 11 hens to the country and now keep 25 plus 2 roosters. Most of the new girls have just started laying in the last month. In the past couple weeks we've started collecting a brown egg that just gets bigger every time we get one (2 - 4 days apart). The last egg weighed 3.8 oz (in pic). It is much bigger than I thought chickens eggs could get and I'm just trying to figure out who it might be from and if it is normal. Our flock is very diverse in that we only have 1 of any certain type of chicken except a couple that we have 2 of. Its often difficult to tell who is laying what eggs, but I do know its not any of our older girls. This is definitely from one of the 5 1/2 month old hens. I can also rule out all the white egg layers, shades of blue and green, and really dark brown layers like my welsummer and marans. I think I'm down to a columbian wyandotte, blue laced red wyandotte, a dark brahma, 2 buff brahmas, and a lavender orpington. They're all big birds with the brahmas probably inching out the others by a touch. Does anyone have these birds and experienced eggs this large? Any special concerns I should have or just enjoy the bounty?
I've been raising chickens for 5 years, so still learning as new things come up. Recently moved from the city where I had 11 hens to the country and now keep 25 plus 2 roosters. Most of the new girls have just started laying in the last month. In the past couple weeks we've started collecting a brown egg that just gets bigger every time we get one (2 - 4 days apart). The last egg weighed 3.8 oz (in pic). It is much bigger than I thought chickens eggs could get and I'm just trying to figure out who it might be from and if it is normal. Our flock is very diverse in that we only have 1 of any certain type of chicken except a couple that we have 2 of. Its often difficult to tell who is laying what eggs, but I do know its not any of our older girls. This is definitely from one of the 5 1/2 month old hens. I can also rule out all the white egg layers, shades of blue and green, and really dark brown layers like my welsummer and marans. I think I'm down to a columbian wyandotte, blue laced red wyandotte, a dark brahma, 2 buff brahmas, and a lavender orpington. They're all big birds with the brahmas probably inching out the others by a touch. Does anyone have these birds and experienced eggs this large? Any special concerns I should have or just enjoy the bounty?