Is this my first fart egg?

[Crazy Chicken Helen]

Found this polish egg today. Never seen one this tiny before in 3 years of keeping backyard bantams. Is is a fart egg? So cute I dont know what to do with it!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Looks like it could be. Is it about the size of a quarter? Can you take another pic with a quarter or other coin next to it for scale? How old are your pullets? Congrats! (Jealous, still waiting for mine! )

 

[Crazy Chicken Helen]

This is an English 5p our smallest coin, and a polish bantam egg regular size.

 

[Crazy Chicken Helen]

All our girls are at least 3 years and older!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Hmm. I don't know, then. Let me see what @aart and @Eggcessive think. I usually think of fart eggs as happening with pullets at POL, but I know you can get them from older hens also.

 

[Crazy Chicken Helen]

This is Honey who does lay smallish eggs but not that small! We have 6 polish in total. Also a silver Sussex and a black silkie

 

[Crazy Chicken Helen]

Hmm. I don't know, then. Let me see what @aart and @Eggcessive think. I usually think of fart eggs as happening with pullets at POL, but I know you can get them from older hens also.

It's weird as we also have a 13 week old buff wyandotte girlie who isn't introduced to the big girls yet, or old enough to lay. We were only joking the other day about her laying mini eggs, but it's not hers as we found it in the main coop nesting box!

 

[Stelliebellie1234]

That is fart egg, and it indicates either the beginning or the end of the laying cycle, or because something has disrupted her reproductive cycle

 

[Eggcessive]

I used to get fart or wind eggs occasionally from a couple of my hens. Mine usually had a tiny little yolk, but some do not. Read number 14 in this link for info about fart eggs:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/common-egg-quality-problems.65923/

 

[Crazy Chicken Helen]

Thanks everyone. I'm not sure what has interrupted her.not even sure which of my ladies laid it! Is it anything I should be worried about?