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| mandashell |
Posted - Mar 24 2011 : 12:01:20 AM
Look at what my hen laid today!!
http://hopscotchdandelions.blogspot.com/2011/03/possibly-worlds-biggest-chicken-egg.html#comments
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| gypsy goat |
Posted - Apr 24 2011 : 5:35:29 PM
that is a huge egg! glad she is ok
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| eskimobirdlady |
Posted - Apr 22 2011 : 8:21:04 PM
I have one hen (either RIR or BR) that has been laying an egg at least that big almost every day for the last 3 years! I am hoping that one of last years babies is hers and takes after her momma! Peace Connie in Alaska |
| mandashell |
Posted - Apr 13 2011 : 01:11:42 AM
oh my gosh we've found a few snakes in the yard but nothing that big!! I really don't like snakes!
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| CMac |
Posted - Apr 11 2011 : 3:56:40 PM
LOL Humm Can you raise snakes for eggs? NO THANKS! I try to be kind to all God's creatures but that does not mean I have to like them. He was as unwelcome a guest as I have ever had and he made a pig of himself too!
Connie
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| ZenGoddess |
Posted - Apr 11 2011 : 3:03:06 PM
Amazing... scary too, I kept thinking while I was reading that you were going to tell us they were snake eggs!!!!!
Hugs,
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| CMac |
Posted - Apr 11 2011 : 12:05:05 PM
I can tell you a funny story about mini eggs. We were in our first year of chickens and things were going great. I started getting tiny little eggs with no yolk. Not all of them but some. Then I noticed the chickens were acting strange. Nervous and a little aggressive when I went in the coop. I thought I had sick chickens. Out came all the books and I found that stressed chickens can lay what was called blow eggs, tiny eggs with no yolk. Hum, I thought my girls had a pretty stress free life! This went on for weeks. Egg production went down. One morning my SE (spouse equivalent) and i went to get eggs. He opened the egg door and peeked in. He jumped back and said" Connie don't look!" Well I did what any self respecting farmgirl would do. I looked. YIKES! Between the nest box and the door was the fattest snake I have ever seen. I could not see how long it was cause it was all snuggled in. We poked it with a hoe handle and it took off out the hen door into the chicken wire yard. It started through the wire and got stuck! It was too fat to get back out! The chickens were going wild flapping and cackling all over the place. I was afraid they would hurt themselves so I did something I never do. I killed the snake so I could get it out. That thing was over 5'2" long! It was a Rat snake, we call em chicken snakes for obvious reasons here in the south. After their unwanted guest was gone egg production was back up and we had no more blow eggs. I can say I never just stuck my hand in there again without looking!
Connie
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| ZenGoddess |
Posted - Apr 11 2011 : 10:57:07 AM
I have a hen that conistently lays huge eggs just like yours and it has the wrinkles too. I wonder if it is due to a slow laying process and what could help them speed it up. Every so often we also get "Mini" eggs I wonder if its from the same hen? We have to many to keep track of but they are all good layers.
We keep the huge & mini ones for our selves as they don't fit into a carton very well.
Would be interesting to find out, maybe someone here knows or has a chicken book for reference.
Hugs,
ZenGoddess/Southernplum
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| CMac |
Posted - Apr 08 2011 : 09:26:10 AM
I know! I only had 5 chickens then and she was easy to identify. I was at home so I kept an eye on the coop and knew she was the one doing this.
Any one else know anything about this happening? Did the old farmer know what he was talking about?
Connie
"I have three chairs in my house: one for solitude, two for friendship, three for company."
Author: Henry David Thoreau |
| mandashell |
Posted - Apr 08 2011 : 12:22:58 AM
CMac- that's crazy, this is only the second time this has ever happened, not sure if the egg came from her then
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| CMac |
Posted - Apr 07 2011 : 6:30:53 PM
Wow! I'd be interested to know if she makes a habit of eggs that size with double yolks. i had one that gave me three or four of those a week, with an occasional normal egg. An old farmer told me that she had a slow egg process and the second egg merged with the one already in her vent. That explains the wrinkle in the shell. All I can say is it sounds uncomfortable to me!
Connie
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| mandashell |
Posted - Apr 07 2011 : 6:13:54 PM
Thanks Candy C!!
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| Candy C. |
Posted - Mar 28 2011 : 04:39:08 AM
That IS a big egg!! I like your header picture on your blog Amanda!
Candy C.
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| mandashell |
Posted - Mar 28 2011 : 12:51:00 AM
Not quite sure which chicken it actually came from but all the hens were their happy selves
-it was a double yoker!
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| amomfly |
Posted - Mar 24 2011 : 6:53:12 PM
Gotta love those big ones! I never get a double yoker though!
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| sherrye |
Posted - Mar 24 2011 : 07:54:48 AM
that is a fine egg for sure. be sure to check her vent. if she tore it the other hens will peck her butt. not good. nice looking eggs all of them. happy days sherrye
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| Marybeth |
Posted - Mar 24 2011 : 07:47:07 AM
That's a biggun alright. Maybe a triple yolker. MB
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Posted - Mar 24 2011 : 06:34:11 AM
Holy Moly!
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| Annab |
Posted - Mar 24 2011 : 03:48:37 AM
You gotta love those whoppers!
Last week I found the complete opposite! One of my gals laid a tiny egg! About the size of a quarter. |
| BalancingAct |
Posted - Mar 24 2011 : 12:22:37 AM
Reminds me of the goose eggs I have eaten.
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| BalancingAct |
Posted - Mar 24 2011 : 12:21:32 AM
WOW! Feel sorry for your hen! What are you feeding? LOL! {:D} I'm dying to know if it has a double yolk!
#8206;"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson |
