Re: Super-large egg?
From: Bird! (zbird_at_nospamuk2.net)
Date: 11/29/04
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Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 10:21:37 +1300
I have a chook... well she's not so much mine anymore, she stayed in
Christchurch with my best friend when I moved.
Old Maudie is around 9 or 10 years old now. She stopped laying ages ago but
wow! the eggs she did lay!
Instead of an egg a day we got a double yolker every two or three days more
often than not.
She's a tough old stick!
Bird!
"KSL" <bulldust@dancepulse.com.au> wrote in message
news:41ab1f6f$0$22803$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...
> Hi Peggy
>
> I doubt very much that they were battery hens.
>
> There is a very enterprising guy in Sydney who started a business called
> 'Rent a chook'. www.rentachook.com.au
>
> The large egg was a double-yolker. The following day we got two eggs
again
> and the next three two days yielded only one egg each day. Today there
were
> two.
>
> Two days after the large egg, my wife noticed one of the birds behaving
> strangely. It stood on one leg, fluffed out and seemed to go into a
> trance-like state. At least, that is how she described things to me.
>
> When I got home from work she was keen to take the bird to the vet, which
we
> duly did. He could not find anything wrong and could not explain her
> aberrant behaviour.
>
> The following day things were back to normal.
>
> Thanks for the concern and feedback
>
> Ken
>
>
> "angie" <angie_arsnic@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:41ab0e9a@quokka.wn.com.au...
> > Hi Ken,
> >
> > Were your hens ex battery hens?
> > How old are they?
> > 1. If they were ex battery hens they may have been fed hormones to
> > increase their laying .
> > 2. The extra large eggs usely means they are on the way out.
> > Hope this helps .
> > I do not get on to check my news very often .
> > Please let me know how you got on.
> > Yours
> > peggy
> > "KSL" <bulldust@dancepulse.com.au> wrote in message
> > news:41a45aa8$0$12900$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...
> > > I am a novice when it comes it comes to chooks, having had my two Isa
> > Browns
> > > for the grand total of 25 days.
> > >
> > > In that time they have laid 45 eggs, mostly around 60-65 grams. Over
> the
> > > last 10 days they have laid two per day.
> > >
> > > This morning I was greeted by one regular size (for them) and one
> whopping
> > > 90g egg!
> > >
> > > Is it common for chooks to suddenly lay an oversized egg, and what
would
> > be
> > > the stimulus for this to happen?
> > >
> > > They are fed on mixture of layer pellets and mash, with treats of
> > sunflower
> > > seeds, sorghum, barley and corn. In addition they get veggie scraps.
> > They
> > > spend all daylight hours free-ranging in our garden. Yesterday, they
> got
> > a
> > > bit of leftover canned tuna.
> > >
> > > Could the tuna have stimulated the production of the jumbo egg?
> > >
> > >
> > > Ken Lipworth
> > > Sydney
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
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