I have a chicken & egg question

[SSDreamin]

My little girls have just begun to lay- I'm so proud of them! - but I have a question: How long do they lay ping-pong ball sized eggs before graduating to 'real' sized ones? I'm getting 2 to 3 per day from my six oldest girls (Buff Orpington's), but they are all small. Asked a family member who has had chickens for a while and she said "A few days". It's been over a week. Am I doing something wrong?

 

[Lesa]

A few days is pushing it... A couple of weeks, I would say.

 

[Bubblingbrooks]

Egg size is always changing. But it happens very slowly.

 

[SSDreamin]

Thank you for such quick replies! I feel better knowing I'm not doing something horrible to my girls!

 

[so lucky]

One of my 5 girls just started to lay last week. They are banty egg sized, but so cute! Hoping they will get normal sized pretty soon, tho.

 

[TanksHill]

They will be huge in not time. Enjoy!!

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[savingdogs]

Mine layed about one or two weird ones each first, then started to lay awesome eggs, and we got the most double-yolkers right at first too.

 

[Britesea]

Funny, I always seemed to get more double yolkers from the 2nd year layers rather than the pullets.

 

[Dawn419]

I still get oddball small eggs from time to time with our flock from anyone of the girls. They range in age from 2-5 years old, no supplemental light or heat.

We have an all bantam flock, but some of the eggs are way-small at times and suspect it's just natural changes that they go through over time.

 

[pinkfox]

our girls laid itty bitties in various time frames (we have all different breeds) but some laid the pullet eggs for 3 weeks others for almost 2 months...every so often well get a pulet sized one or a fart egg now there alittle over a year but for the most part regular sized eggs started comming around the 4 weeks of laying mark.