Finally Opened Huge Egg (New Photos on Page 2)

[rebbetzin]

On Saturday I went to the nest box and look what I saw!

This is a huge egg!

I assume it is a double yolker, I have yet to open it.

 

[thistlebloom]

ouch!
Maybe you should blow it out and then frame it and hang it in the henhouse as an incentive!

 

[i_am2bz]

On Saturday I went to the nest box and look what I saw!
I assume it is a double yolker, I have yet to open it.

Yup. On the few occasions when I've seen them that big, they were double yolk.

 

[lesa]

I always think my large eggs will be double yolkers- but I've only had one or two turn out to be... keep us posted. Aren't your chickens just starting to lay? That is a really big egg for new chickens!

 

[hoodat]

I always think my large eggs will be double yolkers- but I've only had one or two turn out to be... keep us posted. Aren't your chickens just starting to lay? That is a really big egg for new chickens!

Quoth the little red hen OUCH!!

 

[rebbetzin]

I always think my large eggs will be double yolkers- but I've only had one or two turn out to be... keep us posted. Aren't your chickens just starting to lay? That is a really big egg for new chickens!

My Barred Rocks are two year old. The other four are just starting to lay. I was hoping the EE's would give me some green or blue eggs, but so far only brown ones are being laid.

 

[lesa]

That explains it! It looks like the eggs my old girls are laying. I had a long wait for my EE's- but they are so much fun! I love those green eggs- still hoping for a blue....

 

[journey11]

That is a big one, congrats!

 

[rebbetzin]

That explains it! It looks like the eggs my old girls are laying. I had a long wait for my EE's- but they are so much fun! I love those green eggs- still hoping for a blue....

I am thinking the EE's are not laying yet. The most eggs I get in a day are 4. All Brown. So... maybe there is still a chance I will get some other colors here soon. Supposedly they hatched on July 31, 2010 same as the Red Sex links I got that same day from the feedstore.

 

[Ariel301]

That is a huge egg!

My EE that hatched in February still hasn't started laying, though all of my young birds this year started very late, they are nearly a year old and just getting going. It might still be a while for yours, I have heard that EEs can take a long time to start.