Last Sunday I reached into the nesting box and discovered that Brownie has laid this HUGE egg.
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| Brownie's (the ISA Brown) jumbo egg in comparison to the eggs from the Dominique and Wyandotte). |
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| The jumbo egg in comparison to Brownie's regular eggs. |
This sucker weighed in at 103 grams (she usually lays eggs between 65-70 grams). It can be dangerous for a chicken to lay really large eggs because she could get
egg-bound (which is a nice way of saying that the egg gets stuck in the chicken. Not fun, not fun at all).
I felt bad for the girl-- that couldn't have been easy laying that egg. I vowed to not waste her effort and fried up the egg for breakfast the next day. It was delicious!
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| The egg turned out to be a double yolker. |
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