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Struggling with a 3rd world problem

Our eggs are too small.
There, I said it.

Our chickens aged out and one egg per week was not paying the bills, so I gave them to a family for pets and went on the search for younger hens.

When we moved here 5 years ago we gave our chicken coop and 5 hens to one of my wife's close friends. When she found out we were bird-less she was excited to offer us 3 of her pullets. She was so happy to be paying us back. Sounded like a good deal, but I discovered too late that their pullets are bantams, not full sized chickens. Wife says we can't give them back, it would break her heart. They lay little 52 gram eggs and I'm used to 80 gram eggs, so I need two of them a day for breakfast. They are going to have to lay eggs at twice the rate of our old hens to keep up, and I'm not sure they're up to it.



The little bantam eggs weigh in at 51 grams, which is almost the size of Kroger's "large" eggs (56 grams), but still small.



Breakfast this morning. The bantam eggs have proportionately larger yolks than full sized chicken eggs. I'm not a fan.
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