Smallest Egg

[scfire]

I have been lurking around for a while and have been meaning to join, but after my wife sent a picture of a new egg to me today I knew I had to post it. So, why did one of my Australorps lay this unusually small egg?

FYI the egg in question is in the middle beside the quarter for size reference.

 

[canada-goose]

Wow! That's a tiny egg!

 

[laura tiedemann]

Looks like a "wind" egg (or fart egg if you want to be crass)!!! It is an yolkless egg. My hens have laid a few and it is just odd to collect eggs and find these little ones in the nest.