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Mar 30, 2014
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My white leghorn is laying eggs we're going to incubate and one day she layed one about the size of a quarter.
Somebody told me it was a pullet egg? Is my chicken sick? Will these "pullet eggs" hatch? I really need to know.
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Hello :frow and Welcome To BYC! Your White Leghorn could have laid a wind egg (also called a fart egg, rooster egg etc), they are small eggs that usually do not have a yolk, they are fairly common in young layers or in birds starting or stopping a laying cycle, they also just happen occasionally. They are usually caused by a tiny piece of the reproductive system fooling the system into thinking it is a yolk and a shell etc is made around it. They usually aren't anything to worry about.
 
If it is an egg a lot smaller than the size of what she usually lays, I would be surprised if it hatches, those wind/fart eggs are usually not 100% "normal" inside. Pullet eggs are just what they call the normal small eggs that pullets usually lay when they start out, they are normal eggs that gradually get larger as the pullet keeps laying, If it is just a pullet/ small egg from a new layer, those can hatch, but a lot of people do not like to incubate them since the chicks are so small and they have a lower hatch rate.
 
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If the egg is too small, it won't develop. A chick needs a certain amount of egg room and if it is not available, more than likely will not develop past a few days. So I wouldn't bother with it. Like Kelsie has said, these eggs happen sometimes, often to young layers too.

Good luck with your flock and welcome to ours!
 

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