Honey hadn’t laid an egg for two weeks and I thought she was about to moult but she sat in the nest box most days anyway. Then for the second time recently I found her egg in the run. It was extra long for her and she then went and sat in the nest box again. She never seems to know when she has laid.
Honey’s egg is in the middle between Peaches and Barley’s egg
I wondered if it would be a double yolk. I broke it into a dish this morning with Peaches egg.
Honey’s egg is on the right
It wasn’t a double yolk just an egg that was a bit bigger than usual. Well done Honey. Look at their beautiful colour. We had the eggs for breakfast and they were lovely as usual.
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I always laugh when our chickens lay a big egg. The last few times Peach layed, she layed an oblong egg! I wonder if it ever hurts…?
I know what you mean, I too think “ouch” at times.
I have a Wyandotte bantam who always lays torpedo shaped eggs
Funny, because this was a torpedo shaped egg but Honey is a bantam vorwerk and really quite small compared to bantam wyndottes. I know that egg size isn’t about chicken size but even so I was still quite surprised.
I always think it must be more comfortable being an extra long “torpedo” than a big fat one!
I guess so. I am glad we don’t have to know! It may explain this shape though!
Lovely-looking eggs, Carol. Strange that they do vary the shape sometimes. You may remember that Dart struggled for about 15 hours to pass an egg a couple of months ago? Since then, the shape has changed: they are now longer and thinner – more “torpedo-like”, I suppose. Nature’s own way of dealing with a problem?
I guess it is natures way. It seems a more common shape than I had realised. I nearly didn’t write this post as it seemed a bit silly but the response just shows that it is something that is more common than we realise.