Last week, Iris, my black hybrid, laid her first egg, a 65-gram double yolker, as I posted above. The yolks were both quite small, what you'd get normally in a pullet's first egg.
Two days ago, Daisy, the Buff Barred, the last pullet to come into lay, produced a softie.
Yesterday she laid a HUGE 76g. effort; (ouch!)

Which contained two yolks of a normal size for a pullet's egg.

Today she's produced a nice little 43g. egg. Obviously learning from her mistakes!
The big double-yolker was particularly surprising as she's a slim, lightweight little hybrid, only a bit heavier than Lily, who is tiny even for a leghorn. Also strange that two out of these four birds started their careers with very large double-yolkers.
Although their eggs are all lovely and I think there will be plenty of them, I'm surprised and disappointed that, apart from the leghorn's white egg, I shan't be able to tell them apart. They're all the same colour and shape, though I was told that at least one would lay a darker brown egg. How can three pullets as different as a grey laced bluebell, a fawny-brown buff barred, and a jet black bovans nera all lay identical eggs?
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