TINY egg today! Is this normal?

[dfdesigns]

My two Barred Rocks have been laying for about a month and a half now. I keep pretty detailed egg records, and they lay a 1.7 oz to 1.8 oz egg almost daily. Today I saw one of them come off the nest, and she'd laid a tiny egg - I weighed it, and it's only 0.7 oz. (Looks otherwise normal; just very small!)

I would have been excited and thought I'd had another layer, but since I saw the BR in the nest, I know it's hers. Does this happen every once in awhile? Before today, the smallest egg either of them laid was 1.5 oz.

Thanks!

 

[Cats Critters]

Yep one of those oddities that happens, their called fart eggs:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=424920 do a search and you'll find more threads about them.

 

[dfdesigns]

A FART egg?!? I'm dying over that!

 

[chickenlady08]

Yep, that is funny. I get one of those every now and again. I have one now that has been sitting on my counter for a while. When you crack it open it most likely have just the white in there. I have also had one with a tiny bit of yoke to. They are super cute though.

 

[thebirdguy]

It's even possible to get one of those little ones inside of a regular egg. My favorites as a kid were the soft shell and double yolkers..