WHAT is THIS? A guinea egg?

[AnnaLease]

I found this in the chicken/guinea coop this morning:

Chicken egg on left, mystery egg on right. It sure doesn't look like a chicken egg! The guineas are about 20 weeks old now. Is it possible that this is a guinea egg?

 

[silkielover5]

probley is a guinea egg. their eggs are big and pointy. also if you crack it open guinea eggs are alot thicker then a chicken egg

 

[PeepsCA]

That is most likely one of the first eggs, from a young Guinea pullet. They typically do not have a yolk and are called "fart eggs"... seriously, look it up, lol.

 

[JMarch]

looks like a "fart" egg- probably has no yolk- happens when a piece of ovarian tissue breaks loose from a young hen and the oviduct thinks it's an egg, so it creates an albumin and shell- crack it open- will probably have a tiny red fleck in there.

 

[AnnaLease]

Well, I cracked it open, and it had a nice little yoke in it!

 

[PeepsCA]

Was it fertile? (Bulls eye on the yolk)

 

[perchie.girl]

 

[AnnaLease]

I didn't look that closely, but I don't think so. I didn't know I was supposed to look for a bull's eye- sorry.