Solve my Mystery?????

[Puddin Fluff]

We found this tiny egg in our nest box today but have no idea from whence it came!

We have 10 sex-link hens laying regularly for about a year large/exlarge brown eggs.
We have 3 Salmon Favorelle pullets, 1 Araucana pullet, and 1 Mottled Houdan pullet all at almost 19 weeks.

I am expecting small, new eggs but not this brown.

We have had the flock on antibiotics recently for a "chicken cold" and had some drop in production from the sex-links. Could this be a result? It doesn't show in the pic too well but it is darker than our girls usually lay.

Any ideas? We are puzzled.

 

[mickey328]

I had one pretty much exactly like that a few days ago...my sexlinks have been laying regularly since May so I was really surprised...the 6 SL's are all I have and when I got 4 of them like the one on the right and 1 like the one on the left, I counted 4 and a half eggs for the day, LOL. Biology not being perfect, I chalked it up to a "little" whoopsie

 

[Puddin Fluff]

Our girls had their "off" days the first few months but they have been laying for a year with regular large eggs so this is really strange and none of our pullets (who haven't layed yet) are supposed to lay brown eggs so

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[Puddin Fluff]

Any ideas?

 

[Indigosands]

one of my BSL's lays a darker speckled egg just like that. It's awfully small and round... fart egg?

 

[sdsmowen]

One of ours just layed one exactly like that 2 days ago?? wierd

 

[sheaviance1]

I got quite a few like that while my flock was molting last fall. I'm not sure if there is a connection to molting and tiny eggs, but, in my flock, that is the only time I've ever gotten eggs that small. They were darker than normal too.

 

[Puddin Fluff]

No one has started a molt but being just over a year old, I am expecting them to this fall. Maybe that is it.