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Post by mzgarden on Jul 31, 2018 12:26:30 GMT
I'm curious. We got our last batch of chicks in January - Welsummers and Silver Lace Winged Wyandottes. The birds are healthy and producting eggs that are fine but still about half size of our other birds (Comets, Australorps, RIRs, BOs). Am I just being impatient for the eggs to reach full size? Seems in the past, little eggs came and got to be to normal size pretty quickly.
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Post by Skandi on Jul 31, 2018 14:24:28 GMT
My Parents in law got some light sussex. They are meant to lay a medium to large egg, they layed tiny eggs even at two years old. I came to the conclusion that they were from a show bird strain, so yes they looked like they should but they didn't lay like they should.
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Post by mzgarden on Jul 31, 2018 20:32:32 GMT
Skandi, oh dear. Thanks for answering but I can't hit that like button. These are supposed to be the replacements for our current aging girls but we sure can't sell these teeny eggs. They do make the cutest deviled eggs ever though.
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Post by allenw on Aug 1, 2018 12:48:41 GMT
I would think they should be decent sized by now.
My Isa Browns and California Greys started Laying at just before they were four months old. They were little eggs, just now after a month getting to what I would call pullet size. My Dominique and New Hampshires are starting to lay and their eggs are as big as the production birds that have been laying for a month, but they are bigger birds.
Last batch of layers laid decent sized eggs but never layed the extra large eggs you expect to get from chickens as they get older.
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Post by horseyrider on Aug 1, 2018 16:15:24 GMT
Skandi , oh dear. Thanks for answering but I can't hit that like button. These are supposed to be the replacements for our current aging girls but we sure can't sell these teeny eggs. They do make the cutest deviled eggs ever though.
Maybe this is a marketing opportunity. Could teeny eggs become a specialty? Since they have a color difference, call them dark chocolate and milk chocolate cocktail eggs. Or dessert eggs. And sell separately. Offer recipes for pickled eggs and stuffed eggs that are bite sized. Make them into something special, something "For a Limited Time." Because any time, they might lay bigger ones. 
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Post by countrymom22 on Aug 1, 2018 22:51:57 GMT
Our Wyandottes never laid eggs as large as our Orpington's, Plymoutn Rocks or Red Sex Links. Some breeds just lay smaller eggs. I got spoiled with my big eggs and next time I raise chicks I'm sticking to the breeds that I know produce what I want. I don't mind the smaller eggs for omelets but my baking suffers with smaller eggs.
But the taste is still there since I free range all the chickens.
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Post by Skandi on Aug 18, 2018 23:41:05 GMT
Adding to this I have a landhøns (native danish breed) she's 4 years old and lays around 4 eggs a week in the summer, (and my pet so safe from the stew pot) she lays eggs just under 2oz in weight.. I'm pretty sure she layed larger eggs when she was younger!
My next lot will be a mix of marans and rødeAmerikans (red americans which is what they call the brown laying production hens here) I really like large eggs!
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