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ALMOST BEEKEEPING - RELATED TOPICS => FARMING & COUNTRY LIFE => Topic started by: reinbeau on March 16, 2009, 08:15:26 am

Title: We go from small eggs to Big Eggs
Post by: reinbeau on March 16, 2009, 08:15:26 am

I found this egg before we went on vacation.  It's from Henny Penny, one of my easter eggers.  I call the first picture 'Ouch':

(http://annzoid.com/images/forums/Chickens/ouch.jpg)

It fills my hand:

(http://annzoid.com/images/forums/Chickens/egginhand.jpg)

It weighs almost four ounces and is 3 1/8" long.

Title: Re: We go from small eggs to Big Eggs
Post by: David LaFerney on March 16, 2009, 11:09:43 am

Wow! Are you sure a goose didn't pay you a visit?  I'm actually not kidding, I've had gray geese stop by our place in TN for just a day or so and lay an egg in the compost pile - twice in the last 3 years.

Title: Re: We go from small eggs to Big Eggs
Post by: Irwin on March 16, 2009, 11:33:27 am

I found this egg before we went on vacation.  It's from Henny Penny, one of my easter eggers.  I call the first picture 'Ouch':



Is she still alive :-D

Title: Re: We go from small eggs to Big Eggs
Post by: reinbeau on March 16, 2009, 04:02:37 pm

Yes, she's still alive (http://annzoid.com/images/smileys/gig.gif)  I know which hen laid it because I was in the coop when she did - she hopped off that nest really fast!  I just ate it, it was a double yoker.  Delish!

Title: Re: We go from small eggs to Big Eggs
Post by: Brian D. Bray on March 16, 2009, 10:05:28 pm

That would be like a women giving birth to a 1 year old child, double Ouch!!   8-)

Title: Re: We go from small eggs to Big Eggs
Post by: reinbeau on March 16, 2009, 10:37:41 pm

David, regarding it being a goose egg - it isn't, but do geese lay green/blue eggs?