Tiny egg from my dwarf bantam, or other animal?

[Banana01]

This is the second egg I have found. Anyone recognize the animal it is from? It doesn't look like snake or frog.

I have a fully mature but growth stunted bantam hen that seems to be broody sometimes. Could she lay this egg? Guess I have to watch her more closely. Is it possible to hatch? She is very special being a dwarf that had problems as a chick, now she is half size bantam.

She is the black one. The hen next to her was from the same mother but the following brood after her. She is fully mature but half size.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

It could be what's called a fairy egg. Usually they don't contain a full yolk, just a small bit. Have you cracked it open?

 

[neo71665]

Snake eggs have a leather like soft shell. Frogs lay eggs in the water and are jelly.

X2 looks like a fairy egg

 

[ryneaeiel]

X3, I vote for fairy egg as well.

Snake eggs are almost rectangular-shaped and, as Neo said, leathery and soft.

Frog/salamander eggs are clear with a black or white embryo, and are laid in jelly-like clumps in the water.

It's possible that it could have been laid by an unidentified bird, but I think it's much more likely that your bantam produced a fairy egg due to her stunted growth.

 

[Banana01]

I accidently dropped it on the ground, and the inside stayed intact. It was developing into something. I'm guessing a hummingbird egg or another breed. But even hummingbird eggs aren't this small.

 

[Banana01]

I think it is a lizard egg. It's the second I found just laying on the ground. Now that I know I can start to rehome the eggs.

I fed it to my chicken.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

I would have never guessed that.

 

[Eden83_haaretz]

There's one sure way to know if an egg is edible from a bird, all edible bird eggs are basically pointy on one end and rounded off in the other (just like a chicken egg or most domesticated poultry eggs) that definitely looks like a reptile egg. Once found a similar eggs in the countryside, went right away and destroyed it as there are rattlers there.

 

[ryneaeiel]

There's one sure way to know if an egg is edible from a bird, all edible bird eggs are basically pointy on one end and rounded off in the other (just like a chicken egg or most domesticated poultry eggs) that definitely looks like a reptile egg. Once found a similar eggs in the countryside, went right away and destroyed it as there are rattlers there.

Rattlesnakes don't lay eggs, they give birth to live babies.

 

[Eden83_haaretz]

Thanks for the info, it was a snake egg in the end, just didn't get such an excellent look at the type of snake after it was killed and I thought it was a rattler.

Rattlesnakes don't lay eggs, they give birth to live babies.