Weird Egg Thing Found In Nest - What Is It???

[Zippy007]

My hens have been laying everyday for a while now since coming out of their moult, and today i went to collect the eggs and i found this next to one of the eggs :




It had a shell like normal and when it was cracked had white but no egg.

What the hell is it?!

 

[WalkingOnSunshine]

Whoa, weird. Usually eggs like that are teeny and round. People around here call them "fart eggs," but my grandmother called them "witch eggs." They're a reproductive oops. But that one's the biggest, oopsiest oops I've ever seen.

 

[Zippy007]

Ive had those before, we call them fairy eggs, like a small mini egg, i have no idea what happened here - had nothing unusal before or since, think and hope it was a one off!

 

[Happy Chooks]

No, fart eggs have a shell. Those are called lash eggs - they are like a petrified egg. If she keeps laying them, it can be a sign of internal laying. If she's just starting back up from a molt, I wouldn't worry too much.

 

[WalkingOnSunshine]

No, fart eggs have a shell. Those are called lash eggs - they are like a petrified egg. If she keeps laying them, it can be a sign of internal laying. If she's just starting back up from a molt, I wouldn't worry too much.

I thought the OP said it had a shell like normal, and when she cracked it, it had a white but no yolk.

 

[tammyfarms]

I am fascinated! Was the pointy, curved part hard shell too? How interesting. I am afraid I don't have anything helpful to add at this point, just questions.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Fart eggs look like regular eggs, just really small. This looks different. To the OP, was it solid on the inside or of egg white consistency? I suppose it could be an egg that malfunctioned in the process. Unless it's a repeated event, I wouldn't worry too much.

Here's a thread that shows lots of weird eggs, including fart eggs. But yours looks more like this one:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/633054/post-your-abnormal-egg-pictures/0_50#post_8711848