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I just collected the eggs and found this monster weighing in at 97 gramms!! :o

 

This is it next to our second largest egg that weights 69 gramms

 

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Compared to the rest we have:

 

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Its good to see all of the chooks are still walking normally! :)

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You could make a good omlette with that one.

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OUCH :) Double yolker....?

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I think our biggest was around the 97-99 mark.

 

My impression of the chook that laid it:

 

:)

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Haha yeah, I can just imagine what the chook said at the time too! I hope its a double yolker, I'd like to think that chook will get tomorrow off. :o

 

When we get too many eggs we give them away to friends and family, but I guess this one will have to be a keeper! :)

 

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Wow, that deserves to be freshly topped on top of some crispy bacon for breakfast :) double yolker = double yummy :o

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WOW!! What an egg. have you candled it to see if it is a double???

It's so beautifully formed. i bet the hen needed stitches after passing that :)

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If a double yolker were fertilised, would you get twins?

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I didn't candle it, but it was a double yolker and tasted great in tonights dinner! :hi:

 

I think I read once that you can get twins from a double yolker. I think it was Kaz that said that??

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Yes, you can get twins from a double yolker. It is not very common though as the doubles are often infertile. Our hens produced a few last season, but not one was fertile. Twins would be really cool.. Kaz had twin budgies and they both survived too :hi:

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Wouldn't it be fun to get 2 chicks from an egg? Not too much fun for Mum, though.

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Kaz has had twins, and they survived to be beautiful bird's, Anyone eaten an ostrich egg before??

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Wow what an egg! We have never got huge eggs, but once we got a very very tiny egg from our hens. It weight just 3 gram!

 

Here are some photos from when I showed the egg for Petronella, Avril and Winchester.

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aggwinchester.JPG

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Wow what an egg! We have never got huge eggs, but once we got a very very tiny egg from our hens. It weight just 3 gram!

 

Here are some photos from when I showed the egg for Petronella, Avril and Winchester.

aggpetronella.JPG

 

aggavril.JPG

 

aggwinchester.JPG

:o :o :o wow...3 grams LOL! looks the size of a quail egg :P

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Wow, from one extreme to the other. :o

 

Was there a yolk in it and was it one of your chooks first eggs? I've heard they can do strange things when the first start laying, like laying eggs without shells etc.

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Kaz has had twins, and they survived to be beautiful bird's

 

No they didn't :o . If you're refering to Steel and Saphine, Saphine died :o

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Yes, you can get twins from a double yolker. It is not very common though as the doubles are often infertile. Our hens produced a few last season, but not one was fertile. Twins would be really cool.. Kaz had twin budgies and they both survived too :)

 

Check out this article about a tiel breeder who regularly gets double yolkers. When the two chicks survive, they are not identical.

 

http://www.talkcockatiels.com/showthread.p...86881#post86881

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