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.
Tiny egg by Cowgirl Jules, on Flickr I don't remember who laid this egg, but I don't have any bantams. It didn't have a yolk, and was half the size of my normal eggs.
Looks about like the one we got today.... Inside, it was basically non-formed. Just a little whitish yolk.
Sebrights are bantams? they are true bantams. I had a tiny egg like this. It's called a fart egg.lol, Usually they are just one offs. Just see if you get any more. There isn't much you can do.
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, Thanks for the great post. Look forward to more informational posts like this from you! Welcome. Karen
