JUMBO! -- Biggest Egg Ever!

Well we had quite the surprise when we went out for our second trip to the coop today... a Jumbo egg... 2.75oz! 
Mind you we had not even really had any large eggs.  Many of the largest eggs we had gotten to this point were 1.75oz.  Pretty sure that it was Rosie who laid this 'duck egg.'
 

Patty with the Jumbo egg!

It was so large that it barely fit into the egg carton (see back row)

Comparing it to two of our other eggs from the week.
Jumbo on right.

The jumbo egg in Cindy's hand...nearly stretches across two spaces.

What we found when we cracked open the jumbo egg... a double yolk!

What's a nesting box?

This view shows part of our coop.  The nesting box sticks out on the right side.

This is what it looks like when it is opened.  This was what I saw this afternoon.

Open the little door for inside ... and surprise!

Yep, three beautiful eggs there this afternoon

Why use a nesting box?  :)

4-Egg Day

Today we got eggs from all four of our hens!  Of course, Amelia, our most inquisitive bird, has to tap all of them with her beak.  I am pretty sure she checked out the one she laid ... so diligently that she cracked it!

Amelia's egg -- she is overly curious.

Aren't they beautiful!  We got our first 'medium' egg on 12/9/2012.
45 eggs retrieved to date!

Beautiful Eggs!!

The girls have been getting the hang of this egg-laying thing.
To date, they have given 4 eggs.  I am sure there is a way to tell who is laying, but right now we do not know.

In the nesting box, we have placed practice golf balls (it is what we had available).
They don't seem to care.  :)

Beautiful yellow yolks! 
All our eggs are 'small' size so far.
Under 1.75 oz.