Small surprise in coop this morning

[featherfooted]

This morning when I was feeding the girls and collecting the eggs that had been laid, I found the smallest egg I've ever seen on the floor of the coop. In fact, I almost stepped on it. I guess one of the silkies laid it as they are the smallest chickens I have, but they have been laying for a while. It's smaller than the Serama eggs I used to have. It's perfectly formed just tiny.

Regular egg, A Silkie egg, and the Tiny egg

Tiny egg and quarter

Tiny egg with ruler

You never know what you will find.

Georgia

 

[DrakeMaiden]

Any of them could have laid it, but it was probably one of the newer layers. Those small eggs are cute, aren't they?

 

[TransplantedTexan]

One of mine layed a small egg like that about two months before they started actually laying.

 

[Wynette]

Cute 'lil thing!

 

[JenniferJoIN]

Wow... that is tiny!! Cute though!

 

[Windy Ridge]

Awww... so cute!

I might be what they call a "wind egg," with all albumen (white) and no yolk. I just say that because I can't imagine how a yolk would fit in there, haha. Wind eggs are usually much smaller than normal. I haven't had one, yet, though, myself...

 

[nccountrygirl]

I had one when my 2 BSL started laying, but it did have a tiny yoke in it, about the size of a pencil eraser.

 

[arlee453]

Are you sure that you don't have pigeons in there?

Cute egg - let us know if it's a fart egg.

edit: OK, this forum is too cute - I wrote 'f....art' egg and it replace it with 'wind' I do like the family friendly content!

 

[silkiechicken]

Cute little wind/rooster egg there (just names). Probably doesnt even have a yolk!

Hen's probably thinking, boy that was an easy egg.

 

[devora]

Can we see it in a frying pan next to 'regular' egg? It is soooo cool!