Tiny egg

[Raven72ab]

I gathered the eggs yesterday evening and I had a tiny egg. It's about the size of a Robin egg. I've never seen this before. I have 2 americaunas so I don't know if it's from the same bird or not cause I have 2 blue eggs.

 

[MochaDuck]

I think it's called a wind egg. If I'm right and there's only one every one in a while, your hens are fine.

 

[Raven72ab]

Thanks for your help

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

You have received what is commonly known as a wind, fairy, rooster, or even fart egg. Generally speaking these eggs will have either no yolk or a very tiny immature yolk inside surrounded by white. They tend to form around small pieces of tissue that are shed from the reproductive tract which the body thinks is a yolk and forms an egg around. Because the "yolk" is so small, the resulting amount of white and shell formed around it is also small resulting in the tiny egg that you see here. Nothing abnormal or alarming about them just something that happens now and then

 

[cluckmecoop7]

Yes, it's a wind egg.

 

[twendt]

Oh cool! a "fairy" egg! Only heard of them, never saw one. I was calling my pullets first eggs "fairy" eggs because they were so small

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

Oh cool! a "fairy" egg! Only heard of them, never saw one. I was calling my pullets first eggs "fairy" eggs because they were so small

Pullet eggs and fairy eggs are frequently confused, the difference becomes apparent when cracked as pullet eggs have proportionally correct yolks whereas a true fairy egg will not, if it has a yolk at all.

 

[Raven72ab]

Man I love this forum, the replies are fast and the help is tremendous, thank you all. So it's a once in a blue moon thing it sounds like to me. I will feel lucky to have experienced this.

 

[aart]

Fairy, fart, wind, rooster eggs are usually from a tiny piece of tissue breaking loose from the reproductive tract, or an immature ova(yolk) and the body forms an egg around it. Color can be darker than 'normal' as the pigment coating released has to cover a much smaller area so is thicker. Can happen with any age layer, but more common with new or older layers.

I think it's explained in this excellent video, which is worth watching regardless:

 

[Thunder Cock]

This is great information. My hen has been frequently laying them and has done so for the past three days in a row. I'm glad its normal.