fairy egg

We've got a nice little flock of 20 mixed breed chickens that have the same father and 2 different mothers, the older brood is now a year old and been doing very well. Started laying at about 24 weeks. The younger brood just recently started laying about 6 - 8 weeks ago and I seem to have 3-4...

I recently posted about my RIR Willow, who is ~ 4.5 years old. Last week, she started a habit of plucking my molting hen's blood feathers on her vent, so I had to keep her in a separation pen (still in the main run--big enough for a dust bath area, food, water, and a perch). Around that time I...

So I got this elongated fairy egg. Anyone ever seen one like this? This hen has been a great layer for about 3-4 years, she did molt once. She laid eggs even through the winter. Then this spring, one day she laid a normal fairy egg, then this elongated fairy egg, then she's stopped laying...

So one of my RIR pullets has been laying fairy eggs. First time finding this small of a chicken egg, even smaller than my bantam eggs. They look really cute although not much of a meal :p. I wonder when do they stop, guessing its just a hiccup in egg production. Heres a pic:

My 5/6 month old Easter Egger pullet, Gladys, laid her first egg today!!! These tiny eggs are so cute, though Gladys's egg is just slightly smaller than my old hen Henryetta's egg. These few months I have raised her it was fun wondering what color egg she would lay.....would it be blue...

Post pictures of your fart/fairy eggs! I’ve gotten three in the past 2 weeks. Penny for reference. Have you ever tried hatching a fart egg? What happened? I attempted to hatch one in the past, but it never ended up hatching. A link to an old thread of mine about one of the fart eggs I got...

I've read that fairy eggs are often darker than the normal eggs produced from the same hen. That being the case, I was wondering if you more experienced folks could weigh-in on whether this fairy egg probably came from the same EE who laid the lighter green eggs in the background (a new layer...

Got our first fairy egg today! Our 9 month RIR Dionne laid it. So tiny and cute! I think I'm going to blow it and keep the shell. Almost a perfect sphere!

Mama sent me this this morning. Love the weird surprises from new layers!

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)

Hi everyone, I recently lost my 5 year old silkie due to oviduct blockage. She was laying soft-shelled eggs and had 'solid material' in the oviduct. She was humanely euthanised last week. Now, my second egg-layer (3 year old French Marans) is looking very unwell. She was laying very small...

More and more of my EE and BL pullets are coming into production. They are about 20 weeks old, I've sorta lost count. Every new egg is a joy, but I've been hoping I'd get at least one little "fairy egg" as things get started... and today I did! And yes, I know these have other names, like wind...

I recently hatched out some babies and sold a pair to a nice family. The girl is half Buff Orpington/half Welsummer and the boy is pure Welsummer. He texted me today to verify age (8 weeks today) then sent this photo. Have you ever heard of an 8 week old egg layer!? All of their other layers...