Where did this egg come from?!

[ejmatthews1011]

I found a tiny egg in where I have some young chicks, separated from the rest of the flock! The chicks are:
Olive Egger(who knows though) 7wks 4days
Seabright (caught it crowing!) 6wks 1day
3 SilkiexEE mixes 5wks 3days
3 RIR 4wks 2days
I could only upload 1 pic of the RIR's...
There's hardware wire on all sides but the floor and the hardware wire on the ceiling is covered in rubber. The egg was under where their practice roosting bars are.
What is going on?? Is it possible that one of them laid this?!

 

[MysteryChicken]

I found a tiny egg in where I have some young chicks, separated from the rest of the flock! The chicks are:
Olive Egger(who knows though) 7wks 4days
Seabright (caught it crowing!) 6wks 1day
3 SilkiexEE mixes 5wks 3days
3 RIR 4wks 2days
I could only upload 1 pic of the RIR's...
There's hardware wire on all sides but the floor and the hardware wire on the ceiling is covered in rubber. The egg was under where their practice roosting bars are.
What is going on?? Is it possible that one of them laid this?!

Strange. I did see an older post about this same thing happening. Not sure if I can find it again though.

 

[ejmatthews1011]

Strange. I did see an older post about this same thing happening. Not sure if I can find it again though.

I did find an older thread but everone was scratching their heads or thought a bigger chicken must have laid it and it got in with the chicks somehow....

 

[britesidefarm]

This is so strange...if one of them did lay it, it would have to be one of the RIR, (color wise), but it’s WAY to early for then to be laying...I am thoroughly confused

 

[MysteryChicken]

I did find an older thread but everone was scratching their heads or thought a bigger chicken must have laid it and it got in with the chicks somehow....

That's the one I was talking about.
Can you get a picture of your set up?

 

[2ndTink]

We found a small egg in the yard about 4 weeks before ours started laying, it was exactly the same color as what the Australorps are laying now. It was chicken egg shaped but miniature and had a lot thicker shell than what I've seen of wild bird eggs. We still don't know for sure if it was a early Australorp egg or a wild bird. Definitely odd.

 

[paloozaparty]

Looks like a silkie small egg to me, tho I read that all hens start with smaller eggs that grow over time... Tho if your silkies are EE, then the eggs should be not brown?

 

[CHlCKEN]

I found a tiny egg in where I have some young chicks, separated from the rest of the flock! The chicks are:
Olive Egger(who knows though) 7wks 4days
Seabright (caught it crowing!) 6wks 1day
3 SilkiexEE mixes 5wks 3days
3 RIR 4wks 2days
I could only upload 1 pic of the RIR's...
There's hardware wire on all sides but the floor and the hardware wire on the ceiling is covered in rubber. The egg was under where their practice roosting bars are.
What is going on?? Is it possible that one of them laid this?!

That’s extremely weird. Like really weird. If it where a normal sized egg I would have said a hen got over there and laid it, or pushed it over there or something strange. But the fact that it’s so small... could it be? I think it might have fallen out of the nest of a bird, not a chicken. But it if really could be from one of your chicks, possibly the oldest, the olive eggers even tho that is not the right egg color, so for egg color, then RIR.

 

[ejmatthews1011]

That's the one I was talking about.
Can you get a picture of your set up?

I definitely can in the morning!

 

[ejmatthews1011]

Looks like a silkie small egg to me, tho I read that all hens start with smaller eggs that grow over time... Tho if your silkies are EE, then the eggs should be not brown?

I'm stumped... my oldest is supposed to be an olive egger (hatched her from a dozen I bought on ebay so who knows? )she/he is the chick with greyish legs in the pics... i don't even know who's male/female yet!