VERY large egg! Normal?

[Daisy June]

Hi there! My favorite hen, I think she’s a Buff Orpington, lays extra large eggs. A couple weeks ago she laid one almost twice as big as her usual, which are really big. This one egg fills my hand. It’s about as big as a tennis ball elongated. But I’m wondering if this is normal? She’s my favorite and I really do not want anything to happen to her! Is it because she tries to get all the feed or what? Is there danger of her becoming egg bound or engorged and unable to lay some of these eggs? If it’s not normal, what should I do!

I'm so curious as to what the other members will say to this. We will wait and see, huh?

 

[Squawkers]

I'm so curious as to what the other members will say to this. We will wait and see, huh?

It was a double yolked egg! Op posted a pic later in the thread

 

[SkyAJK]

From my experience when I give my chickens capsicum or cayenne pepper for a few days, some of them lay double yorks egg. Those are massive eggs and a couple had blood stain on them. I stopped the capsicum, but occasionally mix cayenne pepper power to yogurt as I read that it helps stop the worms. I only do it 1 in awhile after the double york.

I can not definitively confirm that the capsicum/cayenne pepper causes double eggyorks, but it seems like that to me, and not all of my hens lay double yorkers.

 

[Squawkers]

That’s interesting!

 

[akroberts1085]

I have had some of my girls lay really big eggs. One weighed 91+ grams. I looked up the sizes of eggs and that's considered extremely jumbo. My mom, husband and I call them "ouch" eggs.

 

[akroberts1085]