First egg is a little tiny thing.

[Tootie123]

Is it normal for the first egg to be about the size of an under size golf ball?
I have 8 hens that are turning 16 weeks old and think one of them is starting
to lay. Found this small egg in the nest along with two of the regular size eggs
that my two older hens laid..... Don't remember getting that small of an egg
from the two older hens when they first started laying.....
Hens usually start to lay around 16-18 weeks of age correct?

 

[sourland]

16 to 18 weeks is a little young, but not impossible that a pullet might start on the early side. Sometimes an initial egg or so may be very tiny, but also a hen at the end of a laying cycle may lay a 'fart' egg.

 

[heirloomorps]

We had a Cochin pullet just start laying and her first egg was about half an inch across! She started laying a lot later than 16-18 weeks, that is normally too soon for chickens.

 

[Crafty-Duck]

A lot of hens first eggs are on the small side.

 

[7 Biddies]

My girls' eggs were small to start. After a few days/weeks, they began getting larger. Now, after laying for several months, I'm getting everything from small (the bantam) to jumbo. My Buff Orpington's are HUGE! It just takes a little while for the egg machinery to get geared up.

 

[Tootie123]

I have Buff Orphingtons too, four of them. Four Plymouth Rocks and the two older
hens are Rhode Island Reds. As I remember my Reds were about 18 weeks old
when they started laying but just didn't remember their eggs being that "small."
Thanks for the impute.

 

[ci_cyfarth]

The first eggs my flock laid were pretty small, yeah. Now they're big enough that sometimes they don't quite fit in commercial cartons!

Give it time. They'll get bigger.