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Old November 2nd, 2009, 22:51
Sandman Sandman is offline
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Question Odd Egg!!

Hi everyone...
My girls have been laying now for around 2 and a half months.
I have one girl laying larger and larger eggs daily.. every one larger than the last. Today's Egg is extremely large! one would assume a goose laid it! Large enough that I can't close the lid on the egg carton. WOW!
She was formerly the runt and is now my largest bird. A black rock with no name, I think I'll call her BERTHA!!
So to the question...
Should I be worried?
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Old November 3rd, 2009, 12:22
Barley Barley is offline
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I have a hen that did that and i couldn't believe the size. Unfortunately if you read my post entitled more than just a prolapse you will read what happened to her. As this seems a very rare thing for mine it may just be cautious to look out for a prolapse. I am not saying it will happen as she may be absolutely fine but this is from experience. I sincerely hope she goes on to give you some great size eggs !!!!
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Old November 3rd, 2009, 16:57
joplinlally joplinlally is offline
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Hi
The heaviest egg I got was from my isa "gorden" Brown weighing in at 115 gramms she only did it once? LOL, how heavy was yours
kindest regards
alan
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Old November 7th, 2009, 14:09
Sandman Sandman is offline
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I didn't weigh it...don't have the means too.. but it's huge!
I'm a large man.. 6ft4in and I cannot wrap my hand around it!!

I'll just keep an eye on her.. maybe she was just feeling extra peppy for a few days... lol
She's happy and enjoys all her treats.. so I'm not going to worry until something comes of it.
I just wanted to share.
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