Old chicken laying tiny "first egg" sized eggs

[Tony F.]

Hello,

I have an older chicken, about a year and a half old, that has begun laying tiny little eggs (one inch long or so) almost every day. I have Buff Orpingtons, Production Reds, Rhode Island Reds, and Black Australorps. I don't know which it is, but I suspect it is one of the Buffs, becuase they mostly just sit on whatever egg they find and I don't think they produce much.

I am fairly confident that they have all been layers, because we've had days when we've had as many eggs as chickens. This just started a couple weeks ago.

Can anyone tell me if this indicates anything? Should I be worried about it? Do chickens go through phases like this?

Thanks for any help or advice.

Tony

 

[midget_farms]

The part of the chicken that adds the shell will wrap anything that moves into the neighborhood so to speak. You have a chicken that is passing small parts of the ovum & they are being wrapped in an egg shell on the way out.

Should pass in a while - I've gotten one of these. I usually get the opposite - a rubber egg.