Weird tiny egg

[ChickenAddict92]

This was a little while ago but I've only been on this site a week or so.

Mid-August I saw one of my girls nosing (beaking?) around a little brown sphere-thing. I thought it was a mushroom so I took it away from her since some mushrooms are poisonous. I picked up this thing and realized that it was hard unlike a mushroom. I quickly figured out that this was a little tiny egg. Do any of you have any thoughts about this? I'm pretty sure that it was a chicken egg but not completely; I've only found one of these; and if it is a chicken egg, does it mean something bad or is it just an "accident egg"?

Here's some photos:

 

[scratch'n'peck]

I have had a couple of small eggs over the years. I think that if it happens rarely it's not anything to worry about.

 

[aoxa]

They call them fart eggs

http://citygirlfarming.wordpress.com/2011/05/06/fart-eggs-for-real/

 

[off-grid hen]

I had the same thing happen in December. It hasn't happened since.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/608496/such-a-tiny-egg-from-such-a-big-chicken-first-wind-egg

 

[ChickenAddict92]

I was pretty sure that this little tiny weird egg wouldn't have a yolk yet it did. It wasn't a pretty yolk but it was clearly there.

It was so weird looking!

 

[debid]

My Sussex laid one that was barely bigger than a quarter. It was perfect other than being miniature -- tiny yolk proportionate to the shell size. I'm sure it's just a hiccup in the process.

 

[mohillbilly]

i have seen those tiny eggs a few times it generally is either the first egg of the season or the last...nothing to worry about unless she continues laying them.

 

[crenees]

I've had those a couple times from my laying hens...the girl I bought them from told me it happens when a hen tries to lay two eggs in one day although I've never researched it to see if that's the reason or not...

 

[debid]

It was the only egg my Sussex laid the day she did this. I was presuming it was stress-related because it happened the day after a predator attack.

I've had those a couple times from my laying hens...the girl I bought them from told me it happens when a hen tries to lay two eggs in one day although I've never researched it to see if that's the reason or not...

 

[The Red Rooster]

Probably a fart egg. That usually is a chicken that is just starting to lay. Don't worry.

~AnnElise