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Size of Eggs 



To a certain extent the size of the eggs laid will be 

 dependent on the breeding of the hens that laid them. 

 A chick hatched from a large egg will not necessarily 

 prove to be a layer of large eggs ; but a flock of hens raised 

 from chicks hatched out of uniformly large eggs will be 

 more apt to average large eggs than a flock from chicks 

 hatched out of eggs which have not been selected for 

 size. Nor will a large hen necessarily lay a large egg 

 the reverse is more likely to be true with Leghorns. 



The eggs will vary in size with the age of the layer; 

 and feed, water, weather, and what might be termed tran- 

 quility will also affect the size. 



Pullets just coming into laying usually lay small eggs 

 and the quicker the maturity the smaller the first eggs 

 will be. Fall hatched birds mature quickly and will lay 

 small eggs for a long time. The same may be said of 

 January hatches; but the eggs will grow larger in less 

 time. March hatched birds will lay but few small eggs 

 at the start if they come in normally in from 5^2 to 

 6j^ months ; if they are slow and do not come in until 

 7 or 8 months the first eggs will be larger, often of normal 

 size. 



In the second laying season eggs from all of these birds 

 will be larger, many of them too large. But in the third 

 season they are apt to be smaller if the hens have run to 

 fat. This has been our experience, though it may not 

 hold good generally. It seems to be agreed, however, 

 that hens three years old and older lay more eggs having 

 imperfect shells. 



Improper feeding will affect the size of the eggs. On 



