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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.

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[–] clif@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] The_v@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] clif@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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

[–] TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I guess they have to ease into larger sizes, just like humans do. 🙃

[–] NineMileTower@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

So, this is what we're doing today? Hell yea.

[–] CiderApplenTea@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I don't understand these scale references. Please add banana

[–] DragonsInARoom@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Sizes doesn't matter op

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year 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.

[–] booganiganie@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

One on the left just sold in the USA for 2.2 million dollars. Average price per weight in America

[–] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] clif@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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

... I sense a follow up post.

[–] Sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] LarsIsCool@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In which country did you get a ruler that writes it in mm?

[–] clif@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year 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.

[–] abcdqfr@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Sumo cakes Sauint