A tiny egg

[Its Just Us Chickens]

One of my hens, either a BR or RIR who normally lays very large eggs, laid a very, very tiny egg. It's maybe an inch tall. What causes that?

 

[kelseygirl707]

LOL, search Fart Egg, you'll find all kinds of stuff.

 

[Its Just Us Chickens]

LOL I didn't know they would do that. They're kinda cute

 

[Akane]

Just didn't form all the way. Often such eggs have no yolk. They'll just be white with a shell over it. You get all sorts of weird eggs from chickens.

 

[ohiofarmgirl]

some times its when they first start laying .... or when they resume laying after they have molted. its no big whoop and they can be cute as bugs! i had one about the size of a nickle. sometimes i crack them just to see the itsy-bitsy yokes.. if they have one.

 

[austin12895]

If you incubate them will there be a tiny little chick??

 

[Akane]

No. Very small odds of them hatching. Like I said some don't even a have a yolk. Those that do it may not be fully formed. If it is then the chick is unlikely to have enough food to live on to full size. If everything else does somehow work out right the chick will fail to have enough room to grow or enough room to position to hatch. I had someone send me a bunch of pullet eggs to hatch and even though they were just a bit smaller than normal I only got 2 chicks from 24eggs and those had to be helped out of the eggs. There wasn't enough room for them to position for pipping and zipping.