Making hens lay large eggs?

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People on FB keep sharing a post which says that hens are being forced to lay large eggs and how cruel this is.

The thing is, I can’t work out how someone would force a hen to lay eggs of a given size (other than culling birds that don’t lay large eggs). Is this possible? Or is it FB silliness?

IME of 40 something years of chicken keeping, hens lay a certain size of egg according to their personal egg size - maybe the occasional small or large one for some reason, but otherwise it seems to be constant. I have no idea how you can possibly make them do otherwise.
You can extend the days of the year they lay by artificial lighting, but thats just using their natural light sensitivity

My ex father in laws hens always laid double yolked eggs, dont know what he fed them on or if they were a particular breed, but almost all eggs were double yolks, never heard of or seen any since

The Facebook thing is a nonsense, there isn’t a way you can force larger eggs.

Its genetic, there's nothing you can do to change it. Same with the double yolkers.
People are credulous. They've got the internet, they could check for themselves.

Yes, Thant’s what I thought. Thank you!

My mum won't buy large eggs because she thinks it's more painful for the hen . I think of this every time I buy large eggs

Our girls lay larger eggs as they get older, the eggs are less frequent but bigger. Sometimes we see eggs getting larger and larger until the size is ridiculous, and we know we will lose a hen imminently. It's like the hens body loses control of regulating the eggs size. Usually happens to the older ladies, although hens can live to about 20 on occasion.