Can you spot the big one? It’s been a month now and the girls are still having varying egg sizes. Most of the eggs have worked their way up to a medium small size. I just had a new girl start laying today and it was such a tiny petite egg compared to the others. There are three girls that still haven’t started laying. No colored eggs yet so I am pretty sure Elwood and Jake are in those two late ones. Today I was graced with the jumbo egg you see in the picture. It didn’t want to fit in the egg carton. I feel sorry for the hen that layed it.
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Maybe that wanted to have triplets!
Ooo! I wonder if it’s a double-yoker!!
Cherry- HAHA. You had that egg as that dozen I gave to you guys. Someone told me there was a double yoker in that carton. Maybe it was the big one like Benita wondered. I haven’t got an egg that big since.
Robin, Wow – the eggs are awesome! I thought Elwood was a rooster?? Maybe not! Do you feed them anything special to make them lay bigger eggs? I can’t wait till my chicks are big enough to start laying!
I didn’t know those were the eggs you gave us, lol! Yes that big one was the double yoker.
Lynn- Nope, Elwood and Jake are girls. Elwood is named after an old neighbor who has a fancy mustache. Lee named Jake in honor of the Blues Brothers so the two names would go together. We just feed them a layers ration. I have heard that free ranging chickens can lead to them having much bigger eggs from the better nutrition.
Robin seems to like gender inversed animal names. Our chickens are all female (although the Araucanas still haven’t laid an egg), but the ones with names are Jake & Elwood, Jules (one of the reds .. although we’ve lost track of which one), and Bob, Bob, Bob & Ruffle Bob (all the barred rocks have the same name). Then there is Jack, the new female cat.
Only our dogs and my cat Jasper don’t have an identity crisis.