FAIRY EGG

[ChickNanny13]

Got my first Fairy Egg (8yrs) earlier this month ... Today I decided to blow it out. I thought/read that it's "normally" egg white but found a tiny yolk in this one. I know who laid the Fairy Egg (Buff) whose normal sized egg is the upper "blue".

 

[Kiki]

There is no hard rule when it comes to what is inside a fairy egg.
It's too cute.

I think I've only gotten one over the years that I've had chickens.
And if I'm not mistaken it might have been when they were first starting to lay again after a molt. You know what I cannot remember so I'm going to go ahead and do a search to see if I can figure it out.

 

[ChickNanny13]

There is no hard rule when it comes to what is inside a fairy egg.
It's too cute.

I think I've only gotten one over the years that I've had chickens.
And if I'm not mistaken it might have been when they were first starting to lay again after a molt. You know what I cannot remember so I'm going to go ahead and do a search to see if I can figure it out.

Interesting ... These girls (2 WTB & 1BS) are 6 mo ... WTBs started laying at 21wks (BS 17wks). My next thought is had it been fertilized, would it have hatched into a tiny chick or died in the shell? Probably died

 

[Kiki]

Interesting ... These girls (2 WTB & 1BS) are 6 mo ... WTBs started laying at 21wks (BS 17wks). My next thought is had it been fertilized, would it have hatched into a tiny chick or died in the shell? Probably died

I can not find the post about my fairy egg.
I'm going to keep digging.

I'd bet that if it was fertilized and incubated but it could hatch a chick.
Let me go back and search and see if I can find anyone mentioning incubating a fairy egg.
I couldn't believe that little bitty quail come out of little bitty button eggs but they do.

 

[aart]

I doubt a tiny yolk like that would be successfully fertilized or have enough nutrition in it to fully develop.

Fairy, fart, wind, rooster eggs are usually from a tiny piece of tissue breaking loose from the reproductive tract, or an immature ova(yolk) and the body forms an egg around it. Color can be darker than 'normal' as the pigment coating released has to cover a much smaller area so is thicker. Can happen with any age layer, but more common with older layers.

 

[LoveMyGurls]

What is a fairy egg?????

 

[aart]

What is a fairy egg?????

Try reading the whole thread before posting,
it's explained in the post above yours .

 

[LoveMyGurls]

Try reading the whole thread before posting,
it's explained in the post above yours .

Well, I did read that but for a complete novice, there were some words there that are hard to make total sense of their meaning so I didn't fully understand but it's okay. I've googled it and got my information from somewhere else. Thanks for your help anyway. I'll be very careful to not ask questions again without googling the meaning. I'm from the UK and to my mind, a rooster is a male chicken. I don't know what a layer is and none of that quite made sense to me. It's the whole reason I came onto the forum so I could ask questions because I really don't know what I'm doing with my girls and need help. I feel like I've gone back to school now

 

[ChickNanny13]

Well, I did read that but for a complete novice, there were some words there that are hard to make total sense of their meaning so I didn't fully understand but it's okay. I've googled it and got my information from somewhere else. Thanks for your help anyway. I'll be very careful to not ask questions again without googling the meaning. I'm from the UK and to my mind, a rooster is a male chicken. I don't know what a layer is and none of that quite made sense to me. It's the whole reason I came onto the forum so I could ask questions because I really don't know what I'm doing with my girls and need help. I feel like I've gone back to school now

Maybe this will help ... A "fairy" egg or "fart" egg is an egg that is way smaller than the pullet/hen's normal sized egg. As in the picture I posted, it's in the tsp whereas the normal sized egg is on the side. It happens but not very often IMO ... This was the first in the 8yrs of raising chickens.

https://www.bakingwithchickens.com/post/fart-eggs

 

[LoveMyGurls]

Maybe this will help ... A "fairy" egg or "fart" egg is an egg that is way smaller than the pullet/hen's normal sized egg. As in the picture I posted, it's in the tsp whereas the normal sized egg is on the side. It happens but not very often IMO ... This was the first in the 8yrs of raising chickens.

https://www.bakingwithchickens.com/post/fart-eggs

Thank you so much for explaining. That's so kind of you and I very much appreciate it. I'm such a novice I really do need baby terms so thank you