smallest egg...

[maplesky7]

I have a couple of bared rock hens and a roo that free range seperate from the ones I keep in the run. I thought they were done egg laying (hens are 4 years old) but I have found the eggs... tucked away in the old cat house we have outside. (a dog house but made small for a cat and insulated with a pad and a flannel blanket and a couple of spiderwebs...no more spiders it appears)

Anyway... as I was chuckling about this find as we were pulling them out. There was a really dinky one. I mean... like a lil bouncy ball. So bigger than a marble...or maybe one of those big marbles.

Anyway... I took pics but don't know when I'll get to posting them. I have to have a friend do it on her computer. Anyway, I'll come back and do a search but it is soooooooo cute and funny. It's also real dark brown compared to the others.

I've had gigantic eggs before but never a dinky one.

My kids want to keep it... actually, my 7 yr. old dd wants to hatch it and hopes for a tiny tiny chick.

It would be a bared rock crossed with a silver laced polish roo. What do you think that chick would look like?

 

[Marlinchaser]

I bet it will have no yolk.

If your gonna keep it blow it out, I tried the set it on the shelf and it would dry out, it didnt, and then it stunk.

Had a couple that are about the size of marbles.

 

[debilorrah]

No picture. Naturally there is no picture.

 

[maplesky7]

Imagine a bouncy ball...but dark brown.

 

[ibpboo]

Oh oh, how cool! I once got a dinky egg. I ate it, it did have a yolk in it!

 

[OrpingtonManor]

Maple, when are ya gonna get that usb port working? We want pics!!!!

 

[cmom]

They are called fart eggs.

Edited to add:

I don't remember where I found this when I was researching "fart egg" but saved it.

Occasionally, some young hens will lay eggs that have no yolk whatsoever, only a small amount of grayish tissue. These eggs, historically called "cock eggs" because some people erroneously believed that they were laid by roosters, are now often jokingly called "fart eggs" by people who raise chickens and encounter these unusual eggs with some regularity.

 

[CoyoteMagic]

you can keep it. Put it some place it isn't going to be bothered. I have 2 in my hutch. After about 6 months they will dry out. I have my first chicken egg and first quail egg

 

[Maryallison]

Oh I was gonna tell you it was a egg fart, but was beat to it! I had one and other members told me what it was.

 

[Mahonri]

Check it out... in the center.