Mystery Egg ?!?!

[LoveMyPeepers]

So I went to check the nesting boxes this morning and found this in it:

Yes, it's definitely an egg, I checked. We have some two month old chicks, but that's still way to young to lay and they haven't been in the coop yet. The rest of our hens are at least two years old, and even if one of the hens hasn't laid in a long time and just started up again, I don't think it would be that small. The egg is about one inch long and almost perfectly round, it's a bit greener than it looks in the picture, and none of our hens have laid that color egg before. We google searched it and the only thing that came up was a quail egg, but we don't own any other poultry other than chickens currently, and I've never seen quail around our house. Any ideas?

 

[Debbie292d]

Hi,

Albeit some wild bird getting in there to lay an egg, I'd bet that's what's called a "fairy egg."

When a couple of ours get done molting, it's like they're new layers again and I have seen fairy eggs like that one of yours from them on occassion. As for a different color, that is a bit strange although our eggs are all beige so a little darker or lighter I wouldn't notice as they're all a bit different tint.

I only get one, then the next one is a bit larger, and that keeps going for a few days until she's up to the normal size.

 

[McChooky]

Looks like a quail egg to me.Strange but I do have some hens that lay small eggs from time to time but none that I have at the moment lay colored eggs.That one looks speckled to me