Second FART EGG in 1 week, Why?

[SJMike]

Funny I just landed on this post. We had a "fart egg" about 2 weeks ago & marvelled at the sight! (a bit of drama there)... In any case, like a few of you, we kind of wanted to keep it for novelty sake. So I made tiny holes in each end and blew the contents out (as it you were going to make easter eggs)... Now this lovely little empty & dry fart egg is in a display cabinet in the dining room (where else would one keep a fart egg right???)

Great post!!

 

[cmom]

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I Googled and found this article:

“NO YOLK:
No-yolkers are called "dwarf", "wind" [or, more commonly, "fart"] eggs. Such an egg is most often a pullet's first effort, produced before her laying mechanism is fully geared up. In a mature hen, a wind egg is unlikely, but can occur if a bit of reproductive tissue breaks away, stimulating the egg producing glands to treat it like a yolk and wrap it in albumen, membranes and a shell as it travels through the egg tube. You can tell this has occurred if, instead of a yolk, the egg contains a small particle of grayish tissue. In the old days, no yolkers were called "cock" eggs. Since they contained no yolk and therefore can't hatch, our forebears believed they were laid by roosters. This type of egg occurs in many varieties of fowl.”

 

[cluckinalong]

Fart egg!! That's the funniest thing I've heard. I just got back into chickens again after many years away. But, so help me, I've never seen an egg like that. I've had soft shells as a way of saying, "That's it! I'm done with this daily routine!"
I suppose my question is, once they lay these adorable mini's do the continue to lay normal size eggs? Is there a yolk in there?

 

[nancymiller]

Fart egg......that is hysterical !!!!!

 

[cmom]

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Every once in a very great while I will get a fart egg. (once or twice a year) They continue to lay normal eggs. None have ever had a yolk in it.

 

[Kiwi Chicky]

I have one girl who keeps laying fart eggs.

She also laid this one

 

[beefy]

its because they have been eating the beans in your garden.

 

[Lil Chickie Mama]

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Kiwi CHicky, all I can say for your girl is: OW. No wonder she lays fart eggs after laying something like that!
At this point I'd be happy if my 18 weekers would start laying anything.

 

[cmom]

 

[fasbendera]

Those are a little bigger fart eggs compared to a couple we have gotten. We can't wait until it is time to use them so we can see if they have a yolk. Most of the time the really small ones don't but we have gotten a yolk in one. I like to put them in with a dozen when I give eggs as a gift people get a kick out of them. Great pictures.