anyone ever seen a chicken egg this small

[sarabeth]

I havent got 1 since i posted that been watchin 4 them though!

 

[HEChicken]

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I wouldn't try to incubate it. Even if it does have a yolk (which you may be able to determine by candling), if the chick has regular sized genes, it will develop into a regular sized chick and therefore will not have enough room to grow and develop in that little egg.

 

[Akane]

My seramas lay that daily.

I haven't gotten one that small from a standard though. You probably can't hatch standards from tiny eggs like that. Even crossing standard with bantam and trying to hatch slightly smaller eggs can result in dead chicks because they are just too big for the egg. The female in most species contributes the most to size so that they don't give birth to oversized offspring too often but when you are crossing standard x standard there are no genes there to make a smaller chick for a smaller egg. At minimum you'd probably get a very unhealthy chick with genetic defects that would make it undesireable for any purpose.

 

[knotmyline]

I have a flock of nine 10 month old hens. They do not like the cold, and for the last few days we have only had an average of 4 eggs. Today, we had 5 earlier and I just went out and checked again and found these two. What a surprise to find this tiny baby - 1 1/4" x 1".

 

[terri1nd]

wow, I just discovered one that tiny today in an area below the nest boxes, where I discovered a total of 30 eggs today. They were eggcicles because I am in North Dakota & we now feel like we are having a heat wave if we are above zero this time of year.
My nest box did not have a back on it so I stapled roofing paper on the studs where I was placing the nest box & I think some are pecking the eggs maybe out of boredom & knocked eggs out of the box & into an area I had blocked off to keep them from going in a small area under the nest boxes. At least that is the best I can figure out at this point.
I brought the eggs in & show DH the tiny egg & he is also a novice chicken owner, but he laughed at the tiny egg & said that must have been a fart. So we both had a good laugh when I read that they are indeed called "fart eggs".

 

[PrinceSandwich]

I've had one really small egg too

 

[kvmommy]

I want one sooo bad! LOL to think something like an egg can be considered sooo cute.

 

[woodmort]

The one on the right was a "fart" egg but also contained some yolk as well--most don't. BTW the lefthand one was a double yolker.

 

[Unclebean]

Wouldn't even require a half piece of toast for the dippy in that egg!

 

[crazyforchicks]

I am amazed to see this post!!! I had a RIR pullet that kept laying these freakishly small eggs. Not as small as this one, though I never took a picture of them

I would get these little eggs that were the size of a quarter almost everyday! I got some that looked like a poo patty even curled up like a poop but it was all shell! It was really amusing to gather those odd eggs!