Smallest egg ever!

[Oolala]

One of my girls just laid a tiny egg two days running, she is one year old and had laid normally nearly every day throughour the winter. Tonight I broke it open to find no yolk, very wierd as it coincided with the clocks going forward for the summer time

 

[aart]

From what I've read Fairy eggs don't usually have a yolk.

They can have immature yolks.

 

[Oolala]

They can have immature yolks.

It had the appearance of a normal egg with a yolk like centre but no colour to it

 

[aart]

It had the appearance of a normal egg with a yolk like centre but no colour to it

That would be an immature yolk.

 

[preciouschick]

In 4 years of keeping chickens. Today I found the smallest egg ever under the roost.
It was in my Barred Rocks coop and I found it when I checked for eggs after 9 am.
I believe it was laid overnight. I didn't see it when I opened the coop at 5 am.

The strange thing is all my hens have been laying for weeks. So it wasn't the first egg since they resumed laying from winter break.
The previous small egg weighed 7 Grams. Today's egg weighed 4 Grams.View attachment 2071437View attachment 2071438
Here it is next to the previous small egg.View attachment 2071443
My Barred Rocks are 19 months old. GC

my smallest egg ever. Found this today with all the other eggs. I have 13 chickens but have only seen 11 at a time. Older layer or newbie? I dont know. It's so cute. I should weigh it. cracked it open! immature yolk for sure.

 

[CHlCKEN]

I wish I would have thought to weigh this little egg that I found in one of the nest boxes today. I’ve never had one of my girls lay a fairy egg before but I am assuming that is what it was. My girls have been in full production mode and laying for over a month now. I’m so curious as to which hen laid it. I just don’t know.
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This is it after I cracked it open.
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Craziest thing I have seen.

Not a fairy egg! A fairy egg is the result of another object, most often a piece of tissue, to be mistaken as a yolk and have shell-and-all formed around. That appears to be a very immature yolk, accidentally released and laid. Those would just be called micro eggs.

 

[CHlCKEN]

They can have immature yolks.

I usually say a Fairy egg is the one without the yolk, while an immature yolked egg would just be a micro egg or something.

 

[GC-Raptor]

Not a fairy egg! A fairy egg is the result of another object, most often a piece of tissue, to be mistaken as a yolk and have shell-and-all formed around. That appears to be a very immature yolk, accidentally released and laid. Those would just be called micro eggs.

I recently got a small egg from my ISA Browns, 10 months old. Can you spot it?

It weighed

25 grams, .9 ounce.
It had a tiny yolk.

, but was still delicious. GC

 

[CHlCKEN]

I recently got a small egg from my ISA Browns, 10 months old. Can you spot it? View attachment 2571750
It weighed View attachment 2571757View attachment 2571759
25 grams,.9 ounce.
It had a tiny yoke. View attachment 2571762, but was still delicious. GC

Very nice

 

[CHlCKEN]

I got a bunch of micro eggs last year, and one I turned into a fried egg for my pullets. They said “Yum!”