Double yolked? At least!Recently, little miss Cinnamon decided the time was right for her to take the final step towards hendom and start laying eggs. She started right off with beautiful large white eggs which were a great contrast to the medium brown of the Rhode Island Reds and the dark browns of the Cuckoo Marans. Pretty eggs, yes, but nothing out of the ordinary. Well, she went about 3 days with no egg, which is common during the winter months, and then IT happened. I went unsuspecting to the nest boxes just like every morning, gathering a few eggs here and there when my hand brushed a foreign object. Now this is always scary in the darkened corner where the nest boxes are. You never know what your hand is going to find! But what I pulled out was amazing! It was the largest chicken egg I have ever seen! it is fully 3 times the size of a normal egg! It looks like a goose egg. Poor girl! The photo above shows for comparison, a medium egg from our Golden Campine and a jumbo egg from our Rhode Island Red. That's not a dime on top, it's a quarter! The young lady took it all in stride, though. She was scratching around outside as though it was no big deal. Well, she got an extra bit of cabbage and banana that day.
