Who laid this egg??

[langleybyc]

Went to collect eggs and found this teeny tiny egg on the ground and still warm. I don't know if it was one of my chicks or if it fell out of the tree

 

[junebuggena]

Do you have any young pullet who might be close to laying? It looks like a 'wind' egg.

 

[langleybyc]

No. My chicks are about a week-10 days old. The rest I've had for a few months but don't know their ages

 

[junebuggena]

Newly laying pullets will often have hiccups in their egg cycles. Sometimes they will lay really small eggs, and sometimes they will even lay eggs without a shell occasionally. As they get older, their laying cycle will "normalize."

 

[langleybyc]

Can this happen after a hen has chicks?

 

[junebuggena]

I guess it could happen to a hen after being broody. Going broody will weaken a hen for a bit since they don't eat or drink regularly while sitting. Getting back into a regular laying cycle would take a few weeks.

 

[langleybyc]

Thank you!! This byc thing is new to me especially the baby chicks

 

[chickengeorgeto]

Can this happen after a hen has chicks?

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I guess it could happen to a hen after being broody. Going broody will weaken a hen for a bit since they don't eat or drink regularly while sitting. Getting back into a regular laying cycle would take a few weeks.

I doubt it because hens "have" chicks in a totally different manor from the way that mammals have babies. Although I suppose one can make a case for a mature hen who has been out of production while she's broody, to lay a young pullet egg when she first returns to production status. But that begs the question of why don't all or almost all hens lay similar eggs when they finish their annual molt and they are ready to lay again.

No. My chicks are about a week-10 days old. The rest I've had for a few months but don't know their ages

I think that we have our answer.

 

[langleybyc]

The other thing that could have happened is that it fell out of the trees. But I don't think it would have survived the fall

 

[Julia62]

I had one of my hens (1 year old) layed an egg that was 28 grams. All her eggs are range from 67-70 grams and one day this tiny thing popped and then she went back to normal. The yolk looked funny too, almost blurry. She is a Golden Comet.