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.

  • clifOP
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    2 months ago

    For fun, here’s a large-normal-small comparison.

    • @The_v@lemmy.world
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      72 months ago

      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.

      • clifOP
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        2 months ago

        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

    • clifOP
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      42 months ago

      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.

  • southsamurai
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    42 months ago

    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.

  • Xanthrax
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    2 months ago

    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.

    • clifOP
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      12 months ago

      Not sure yet, we’ve just been gawking at it and haven’t eaten it yet.

      … I sense a follow up post.

  • Sparky
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    2 months ago

    Size doesn’t matter. It’s how you use it

    • clifOP
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      52 months ago

      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.