Tiny Eggs

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Jul 1, 2011
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I am curious if anyone has ever gotten any tiny eggs. I have a dozen sebrights about a year old. All the hens are now laying and one is laying eggs about the size of your thumb nail. I've raised a lot of poultry but never seen anything like this. Today was her 3rd egg, all the same size. Is is normal for some bantams or is this plain weird. The rest of the hens are laying normal size bantam eggs.
 
Did you ever get an answer to this? I too have Sebrights and have had about 6 tiny eggs this year.
 
Tiny or miniature size eggs in standard size hens are the natural result when a small bit of reproductive tissue or other small foreign mass enters the hen’s oviduct and triggers the regular formation of an egg.
Inside the hen’s body the bit of tissue is treated exactly like a normal yolk and is swathed and enveloped in albumen, membranes and a shell and is eventually passed from the hen’s body. When it is laid it looks just like a regular chicken egg except that it is very little and teeny.
These types of malformed eggs have been known for centuries as a ‘Cock Egg’. Most often these little eggs contain only the white of the egg and no yolk. Usually the shells are harder to break than that of a normal egg.
 
Tiny or miniature size eggs in standard size hens are the natural result when a small bit of reproductive tissue or other small foreign mass enters the hen’s oviduct and triggers the regular formation of an egg.
Inside the hen’s body the bit of tissue is treated exactly like a normal yolk and is swathed and enveloped in albumen, membranes and a shell and is eventually passed from the hen’s body. When it is laid it looks just like a regular chicken egg except that it is very little and teeny.
These types of malformed eggs have been known for centuries as a ‘Cock Egg’. Most often these little eggs contain only the white of the egg and no yolk. Usually the shells are harder to break than that of a normal egg.
Hi Kasc,
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Thanks for the great post. Look forward to more informational posts like this from you!
Welcome.
Karen
 
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