Heaviest egg?

[Jesse]

Was it here, or somewhere else I saw that someone weighs their eggs and keeps a record. That, and seeing Heldi's eggs in the gallery, got me to thinking, should we have an ongoing thread to record the A4a heaviest egg record? Whenever someone collects a whopper egg weigh it and post the weight here. Just a bit of fun

The heaviest one I have in the tray at the moment is 78g but I'm sure that will be easily beaten (excuse the pun )

[Heldi]

Hee hee what fun. I'm off to weigh mine!  I hope OH hasn't pinched the big ones again...I didn't get my name on them quick enough

[Heldi]

I weighed the biggest one I could find...69g.  Jesse you are top chook at the moment!

[Jesse]

Ahhhh, so Roma's top chook for the time being

[kenkew]

I have one at 120 grams. Pure white and a real cracker. It gets heavier every time I paint it.

[Heldi]

LOL!   

[Jesse]

[agapanthus]

Would someone go and tell my chickens to lay....then I could join in

[Paulines7]

Put a china egg in the nest box Agapanthus and that will kickstart them back into laying again.  It has worked everytime for me.

[kenkew]

Either that or walk up and down your pen sharpening a large kitching knife.

[agapanthus]

will do Pauline thanks     by the way did you get my e-mail....being having a few probs with it.

[Paulines7]

will do Pauline thanks     by the way did you get my e-mail....being having a few probs with it.

Yes I did Agapanthus, thank you.  I will be in the chat room later this evening so perhaps we could catch up on news in there.

My heaviest egg from those collected today was 78g.

[agapanthus]

Kenkew.....am always threatening...but they know it's all lies
Pauline....china egg in place

[kenkew]

Once upon a time I had close to 200 hens on land at the bottom of my garden. These ranged from POL to 'ready to boil' birds. Keeping 'em isn't just a matter of going round with the egg basket!
One puzzle to new hen-keepers is...which lay, and which don't? Easy way to tell is;
Lift the bird under your arm, with two fingers of the other hand, press them flat against the 'egg ejection area', if both fingers fit between the bones of the pelvic, that bird is a layer.
It's just a rule of thumb!!

[Heldi]

I was told tree fingers Ken but that was off a lady. Size of fingers matter I guess.

[kenkew]

With or without the bark, Heldi?

[Heldi]

well they are woodland birds !

[Heldi]

Woo hoo look what we got yesterday     

[stuffed]

I was told tree fingers Ken but that was off a lady. Size of fingers matter I guess.

Yeah being a girlie with little fingers I'd definately say 3. When I got my first birds I had a cuckoo maran called Henrietta. I kept checking and every time it was 2 fingers width, but no eggs. Well eventually we found out why. Henrietta was a Henry. Despite having a gap of 2 fingers that bird was never going to lay

[Jesse]

whooohoooo Heldi! That is a whoppa, well done Heldi's chook