Brown Egg Size

Haven · #1 09/25/12, 09:21 AM

My Wyandottes were born on March 3 and have been laying for a few months now. The eggs are almost all medium size with the exeption of one hen that seems to lay jumbo eggs with a double yolk a lot. They stopped laying the small pullet eggs a while back.

I was at a farm market looking at their brown eggs yesterday, and they seemed massive compared to mine. Wondering if I need to switch breeds. Normally I would not care about size, but I do sell my extra eggs. I have been tossing extra eggs into each dozen I sell, to make up for the medium size.

Will the eggs become larger as they age?

patty12 · #2 09/25/12, 09:49 AM

I would think the size of the egg would get larger as the laying season progresses.the eggs you see in the store are graded for size and the flock might be several 100's large so I wouldn't compare my eggs to their LARGE eggs. not all of their flock would lay a large egg.

chickenista · #3 09/25/12, 10:09 AM

They will begin to lay those large, impressive eggs after their first moult.
So.. next winter.
At least my older girls are the ones that give me the big honkers.
Most don't even fit in a jumbo carton easily.

Haven · #4 09/25/12, 11:09 AM

So is like a year old kinda when the eggs turn large-ish?

**ladycat** · #5 09/25/12, 11:15 AM

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Originally Posted by chickenista

They will begin to lay those large, impressive eggs after their first moult.
So.. next winter.
At least my older girls are the ones that give me the big honkers.
Most don't even fit in a jumbo carton easily.

That's my experience. After that first molt, the eggs get BIG.

mommathea · #6 09/25/12, 12:01 PM

My sex-links usualy lay jumbo to large eggs from the get-go. The other breeds are more like what chickenista said.

ai731 · #7 09/25/12, 06:14 PM

Yup, the eggs will get bigger next year.

**ladycat** · #8 09/25/12, 09:55 PM

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Originally Posted by mommathea

My sex-links usualy lay jumbo to large eggs from the get-go. The other breeds are more like what chickenista said.

Same with my Freedom Rangers! Their first 2 or 3 eggs are a bit small, but almost immediately they started laying large eggs. Within a few days after they laid their first eggs, I couldn't tell their eggs from the adult hen's eggs.