On the left is you average sized corn kernel, on the right is a bantam egg which is from the smallest egg layer in my flock.
My 19 month old Pekin Cochin, Cilla, was in the nest box, doing the whole "I am going to lay an egg thing" when everyone got let out for a supervised free range. I could see that she wanted out also but she stayed put. A bit later she came running out of the coop and joined her play mates. I go to collect the egg she would have laid ... hhhmm, no egg! 30 minutes or so later I am taking some happy snaps of the gals on the lawn when I see this tiny little offering next to a chicken poop.
I have two options here:
1. Cilla was wanting to go play and she laid it 'in a bit of a hurry'? Except that her eggs and normally only slightly darker than the bantam egg pictured and this tiny offering is a nice rich tan colour?
Or
2. LuLu, Pekin Frizzle, laid her first egg?
Guess I will never know but had to share because it is sooo tiny
