Chicken Cacciatore, (Chickie), and Henrietta, (Hennie), are egg laying machines! At twenty five weeks they are still pullets. The first egg was only a month ago and now they each lay an egg a day. The breed is Bovan Brown.
Chickie is a little sloppy where she deposits her morning egg so I put a large large darning-egg in one of the nest boxes hoping she'd take the hint. Well she took the hint alright. Maybe she thought she had competition because this morning she layed a colossal egg. Not just a large pullet egg but the biggest chicken egg I have ever seen. It is more than 2-1/2 inches in length and weighs a quarter of a pound! Easily twice the size of an extra large egg. It's much too large to fit in an egg carton.
Chickie is a little sloppy where she deposits her morning egg so I put a large large darning-egg in one of the nest boxes hoping she'd take the hint. Well she took the hint alright. Maybe she thought she had competition because this morning she layed a colossal egg. Not just a large pullet egg but the biggest chicken egg I have ever seen. It is more than 2-1/2 inches in length and weighs a quarter of a pound! Easily twice the size of an extra large egg. It's much too large to fit in an egg carton.
