small egg

I found this single egg inside a fairly large chicken coop with no other types of birds inside. it is a enclosed coop, so the only kinds of birds EVER inside are miscellaneous breeds of chickens and black birds that are able to fly in. They look like the kind of birds that hang out in like...

My gals have been lying normal size eggs since September. Good layers, all of them! But today I got this tiny egg. Girls are 8 mos old and have been laying since July. This is kind of odd. Should I be concerned about it? Normal lifestyle - no new changes. Coop, run and feed are the same. Not...

Collected eggs today and noticed the little guy on the right in the nesting box? Could this have came from one of the hens or has another creature managed to lay in the coop? Has this happened to anyone else? I cracked it an it is looks a normal egg, just… tiny. I poked it (ha!) and it feels...

Just gathered a very tiny egg from the quail cage! Anyone else have any experience with this? Ive never seen one like this before and am very curious. What should I do with it? Im wondering if it is possible to hatch something like this??? Probably not, but love the idea of a very tiny quail...

I am so excited! This is my first flock of my own (we had chickens when I was younger) and they are just so much fun! I received my first egg on 7/26. I’ve been getting 4 eggs/day since 8/27. Today though, I received SIX eggs! I have 15 hens & 2 roosters. They are so spoiled. I’m just thrilled...

We have 6 laying hens, one of which is a bantam. we have another hen who we were told had already stopped laying by the time we got her. recently i’ve been seeing the old hen sitting in the nesting boxes, and we have been finding these extra tiny brown eggs! could she be laying some glitch...

Waddles laid her first egg today! She laid ontop of her night waterer, of all places..! It’s surprisingly small, I felt so surprised to see it that tiny after hearing everyone rant and rave about duck eggs being notably larger than chicken eggs, this one is noticeably smaller. Is this normal...

THis morning when I collected the eggs, I discovered a tiny egg! I’m aware of fairy eggs but I think this one has a yolk since isn’t that small. I will update on that when I cram it open (probably to make a scrambled egg for my littles if it had a yolk, and feed the big girls the Shell)

Sorry if this has been asked before but I'm in a bit of a panic. My girls are painful skinny. How can I help them get to a healthy weight? It's hurting egg production & I have people coming out of the woodwork looking for eggs right now. 1) What type of bird , age and weight (does the...

hi peeps... So I have a Cuckoo Bluebar and she just started laying. I was wondering if what she’s doing is typical. Last week she acted confused (in and out of the coop, sitting around puffed up, talking a lot), then overnight she laid two “eggs”— one was a blob of yolk and some shell-ish...

Hi everyone! My sebright has been laying regularly for about 3-4 months, but today she lay the smallest chicken egg I have ever seen. I am not too concerned just more curious to hear what people think. Here are a couple of photos of the egg, one of her regular eggs and the lady herself.

So we have ducks that are two years apart. The older ones have been laying eggs in a nest. The younger ones are just turning 4 months old. Yesterday I found an egg in our sandbox and it was tiny. It's smaller than a chicken egg but the shell feels fully formed and it's the correct shape. Is this...

Helllooooo BYC'ers! So, Dorothy my 1 year old Barred Rock with the respiratory issues is still hanging in there. If you remember I took her to doc who gave her a dose of antibiotics a month ago and he suspected it was pneumonia. Well, she still has the "cough" where she gasps for air. Other...

So one of my hens laid her very first egg and I am really happy and excited. But I have 2 questions: 1- The size of the egg is much smaller compared to the other eggs. Is it normal for a hen to lay smaller eggs first? 2- Can we expect a hen to go broody after her first egg? If yes then how to...

We currently have 3 laying hens, all about 5 1/2 months old. Our Rhode Island Red and Orpington began laying at 4 1/2 months, and our Speckled Sussex began laying at 5 months. All eggs seem rather small for their breeds. At first I figured it was due to the early age of laying (especially for...