Pullet eggs

Bottom: third egg from my Partridge Chantecler pullet(s). Top: FIRST egg from my Coronation Sussex pullet. Yikes!! I gave her an extra treat for that one!

Congrats on the eggs

I weighed them for fun. The little PChant egg is 43g. The Sussex egg is 58g. The large store-bought eggs I have are 60g. Not bad!

Pullet eggs are the bestest! They also taste extra yummy.

so cool, please tell if the Coronation Sussex is a double yolker  

So exciting!!! Your Coro Sussex needs to come over and tell my silver and light sussex to get with the program - bunch of slackers!!!
Congrats on the eggs.

Your sussex are totally freeloading. Better hang a hatchet up beside the door ... then they know you mean business! Ha!

That's great. I love the coloring on fresh eggs and the smooth shells its like glass. So pretty.

Got another beautiful sussex egg today! 65 grams!

My Houdans and Houdan crosses are starting up! The eggs are small right now but I have patience!

Houdan crosses? Now you have to send me photos of those ....

authenticfarm wrote:Houdan crosses? Now you have to send me photos of those ....

Oh, you would like them! Just like Houdans, but solid black. I will use them to improve my existing Houdans.

Oh Authenticfarm I'm pretty sure you need a couple of lovely Houdan crosses.........Picture me saying that in a non-enabling fashion :geek:hehehe

I cooked up some of these pullet eggs for breakfast to share with my almost-20 month old. SO GOOD. I tried to steal some off her plate and she fought me off with her fork, all "Mom, I will CUT YOU," while cramming eggs into her mouth with her free hand as fast as she could. That's my little foodie!

More pullet eggs today!



So ... I suspect that the huge honkin eggs I have been getting are actually coming from my Houdans. They haven't laid in so long, I forgot what their eggs looked like!   The first one, the 58 gram one, may have been a Sussex egg, though. I did a vent check after I found that one and she was looking pretty stretched out.

The lighter egg in this photo, I think, came from my Sussex. Weighed in at 45 g, same as the PChants.

here's a question about egg color that you might be able to answer.  I thought I was safe in assuming that the lighter eggs I get are always from the same chickens (light sussex) and the darker ones are from the barred rocks and now someone else is getting in on the game, hard to see in the photo but the little egg I found today has slightly different brown color to it.  Will a chicken always lay the same colored egg (talking shell here, not yolk  -  saw that mentioned in the post about the guy working with McMurray hatchery)? I ask this because you mentioned you had forgotten what the Houdan's eggs looked like and not sure the rest of the connection but that inspired the question.

I think they will lay a similar colour, yeah. Some of them get lighter as they get older.

I find there are differences between hens of the same breed, too. The two White Chantecler hens I had, one laid a pale pale beige, the other one was a few shades darker.

I just got my second Partridge Chantecler egg of the day, and that pullet appears to be laying a little bit of a lighter egg than the first one who started laying from that group.

My two Houdans lay very similar-coloured eggs, though. I couldn't tell them apart. Their eggs used to be quite oval in shape - long and narrow, I mean - compared to the Chanteclers. Since the Houdan has fired back up after her break, though, the eggs are much rounder and eggier-shaped. The shape is what threw me off and made me think it was the Sussex!

Hopefully someone who knows more than I do will chime in.

thanks for your reply.  I hadn't even thought about egg shape but guess that's a thing too  -  until not so long ago I believed what I think must be total pish about the oblong eggs being roosters and short squatty ones being hens  .  I will have to be way more observant on connecting color and shape.   Can you post an egg picture showing a party chanty egg please?  (I like to tease them in my mind, they are the least party type girls out there   -  they are starting to integrate more but still tend to stand back and look on as if the rabble did "it" kind of thing, they gently play with their food instead of ravenously scoff  -  do yours behave like that?).  I suspect the newbie egg in my coop today was from one of Coopslaves partridge chantecler chickens, she raised them to be nice girls     - they would be the closest to begin laying out of all the others.

I bet it is one of the PChants. My young ones, same age as yours, have been laying for about a week or so now.
I find my PChants have an oval egg. Not as much of a pointy tip on them. The Coops don't have much of a tip either, but they are rounder. The green egg layers have more of a 'proper' egg shape.
When I am setting the PChants I sometimes have a difficult time with which end is the air sack. I am to lazy to candle when I first load the bator so I just swap them at the first candle if I have had them in the wrong way (which seems to happen every hatch).

The Bantam Wyandottes I had in Australia had a very 'round' egg too. The Barnevelders were longer and thinner with a definite point and the Australorp had a 'normal' shape.

I have found if I can catch a hen laying I time or two I can begin to recognise her egg. Slight differences in shape and colour seem to stick with the same hen I have found.

Magdelan, both of the photos I've posted, the darker brown egg is a Partridge Chantecler egg.

Thank you Authentic, I didn't read your post right  - a little bit lazy I think, truth telling is good for the soul  . so quick rush to the egg carton and held up to the screen photograph, yes ... the same shape . .. .. and allowing that the lighting and all that . . . by joves I think they are the same!! But my one is the runtiest little thing   not dissing it, blessing it  . I like runty things, like pollywog and her need for tininess. but, I love big things too and know they will be all they can be in time. Yes, Coopslave, I believe we are on the same time schedule. It is like a type of coral off the coast of Aus in the Great Barrier Reef releasing it's eggs at the same time as the same species off the coast of Sth America does, how do they know?? I think it is pure consciousness in action. I'm playing but maybe there is something in that with these chickens, well we aren't quite in tune but not far away. For sure I can see how you might struggle to find the pointy end because it seems damned oval to me and slighty roundy butted but it is barely perceptible. Can't wait to see if they do more tomorrow.

Got my first olive egg today!

Cute, the egg too!   

Congrats!!!!

That's my mini me! She's a good egg.