Thistlewick Smallholding - Chickens & Sheep (for now)

[Shadrach]

Okay so is it possible a 17 week old Vorwerk or Ayam Ketawa laid this tiny thing?

Or someone else had a misfire?


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I think it's a misfire??

Ayam Ketawa and Vorwerk lay white/cream/tinted eggs

This one is like a Wyandotte pinky tan.


Also dang my buff Orpington is laying the weirdest pointy eggs the last couple days lol

Undersized eggs are not uncommon, especially with new layers.

 

[WingItRanch]

I'm not a fan of Silkies, Polish, Frazzles or Frizzles.
I am a fan of bantams mainly because I've had fewer social problems with them than any other breed or combination of.
The wisdom is, because bantams lay small eggs and aren't suitable for meat for the western rate of consumption (they taste just as good as the so called dual purpose birds and much better than the Cornish X when properly ranged) they haven't been messed about with as much by breeders. Bantams in the UK were mainly ornamental birds, garden eye candy.

That's how they are in the US, too. Bantams are just pretty lawn ornaments so you're probably right that they don't mess with the genes too much!

 

[thistlewick]

Undersized eggs are not uncommon, especially with new layers.

Yeah I just haven't had many, but all my layers haven't been laying a year - they are about 8-9 months laying only. Only one other fairy egg in all that time.

But yeah it seems to me like a smol blip from one of my big girls. None of the younger birds I have are old enough really.

 

[kattabelly]

I'm not a fan of Silkies, Polish, Frazzles or Frizzles.

Me either!

I am a fan of bantams mainly because I've had fewer social problems with them than any other breed or combination of.
The wisdom is, because bantams lay small eggs and aren't suitable for meat for the western rate of consumption (they taste just as good as the so called dual purpose birds and much better than the Cornish X when properly ranged) they haven't been messed about with as much by breeders. Bantams in the UK were mainly ornamental birds, garden eye candy.

That's interesting and makes sense. I'd never really given bantams much thought but I probably would've assumed the opposite - that they were more "messed about with" by breeders just wanting pretty little decorative pet birds.