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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: andy harris on December 12, 2010, 08:46:39 am

Title: Pullet egg !!!!!
Post by: andy harris on December 12, 2010, 08:46:39 am

Hi all
       We have 10 chooks all in lay.They started laying march this year i went up and got they eggs yesterday afternoon and i find a small pullet egg in the nestbox.All our girls lay nice big eggs this has never happened before . We have not changed anything we feed them pellets and mash .Dose anyone know why. ???

Title: Re: Pullet egg !!!!!
Post by: northfifeduckling on December 12, 2010, 08:46:16 pm

The same happened with my ducks a few weeks ago. It was the first time for a few years we had wee eggs as all had been in lay for a while - it left me puzzled! Blame it on the weather ::) :&>

Title: Re: Pullet egg !!!!!
Post by: Sylvia on December 13, 2010, 11:53:43 am

It happens at the end of lay, also with older birds. I have blown and kept an egg from an old hen that is the size of a blackbirds egg. There was no yolk in it.

Title: Re: Pullet egg !!!!!
Post by: northfifeduckling on December 13, 2010, 11:57:20 am

I hope you mean the end of lay per season (not for good), Sylvia! I posted a picture on here somewhere with all the different sizes we had  ;D

Title: Re: Pullet egg !!!!!
Post by: doganjo on December 13, 2010, 02:00:22 pm

End of season laying I think.  My duck laid a wee egg a couple of weeks ago then I got three more normal eggs then she stopped altogether.  The babies won't lay till spring.