Can some-one please tell me as it's driving me mad.Went to collect eggs the other day and in among them was the tiniest egg I've ever seen,quite literally it wasn't the size of a marble and a really dark brown.Son says must be a wild bird got in and laid it,but one egg, and this time of year?It was nowhere near sparrow egg size and I've trawled the internet and not found anything remotely like it.Could one of my hens really have laid anything that small[trying to hint about dieting maybe?]or can anyone give a suggestion. P.S. it's not a wrens egg either,much too solid & dark brown matt colour.
mini egg
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chrismahon
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Hi Martdog. We had one of our Wyandottes go through a phase of laying tiny eggs. Last one weighed 26 grammes instead of the usual 55. No yolk inside. We wormed them and it stopped, which may have been co-incidental. The colour of the last one was slightly darker than usual, but not that much. It was bigger than a marble though, about 1" long and the right shape.
They are quite common, especially in pullets just starting to lay. The more polite term is wind eggs or cock eggs, the more usual one is chicken fart eggs. Obviously something occasionally goes wrong in the production line, resulting in some stages of the egg formation being missed out. Not harmful, just a curiosity!
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Thanks folks,seems it was my girls then,not had another one since so obviously whoever it was got over her farts.Maybe it was the sage & onion I've been feeding them ready for xmas[joke,too soft they'll be there until they fall off their perches].
