We showing odd eggs now? Here’s mine.
EDIT: Fixing post so the image is in the post instead of in the body. I’m dumb, sorry.
Sizes doesn’t matter op
Our hen usually lays every day, and they’re typically a good medium size, verging on large (which is astounding for a marans). But every now and then she’ll drop a butt nugget that’s smaller, or oddly shaped.
For fun, here’s a large-normal-small comparison.
Bottom - pullet egg. A younger hen often starts laying with smaller eggs.
Middle - regular egg from an adult chicken.
Top - likely a double- identical twin eggs sharing a shell.
All from adult (2.5 year old) hens within a one week span 🤷
EDIT: also, one particular hen routinely lays those large, weird, elongated eggs. She’s a buff orpington
In which country did you get a ruler that writes it in mm?
Oddly, in the US at a local hardware store. I bought it specifically because it had metric on it and was small. Metric system, best system.
So, this is what we’re doing today? Hell yea.
Does it have a yoke? Sometimes, my chickens lay two eggs, and the second one looks like that. Usually, they’re a bit rounder, though.
Not sure yet, we’ve just been gawking at it and haven’t eaten it yet.
… I sense a follow up post.
Is it a tiny chicken?
No, all of our hens are “normal” sized layers - speckled sussex, buff orpington, white leghorn, and black stars. Based on the color of the egg, I think it was from a speckled sussex.
