Tiny Egg

Nickyn · Post by **Nickyn** » Thu Jan 05, 2017 5:07 pm

I went out to collect the eggs today and found a tiny egg beside the feeder. It is a darker egg than any that my girls lay. Could it be a new layer's almost start? Its so cute!

Pic of tiny egg + all of my little bantam layers. None are really all that large!

Post by **Home Grown Poultry** » Thu Jan 05, 2017 5:29 pm

oh we have a technical term for that... its called a fairy fart!

LOL yup its from a new girl getting ready to lay or from one coming back into lay. crack it open... it will look really weird.

Post by **WLLady** » Thu Jan 05, 2017 5:36 pm

Whoohoo fart egg!!!!

Nickyn · Post by **Nickyn** » Thu Jan 05, 2017 6:31 pm

Strangely I like 'fairy' and the hubby giggles at 'fart!'

I had a broody silkie who gave up sitting 2 days ago. I suppose this is likely hers. I only have 2 other non-laying hens. One is an ameraucana, so not hers. The other is a Silkie who is almost 2 years old and never laid an egg.

Here is the inside...

Post by **Home Grown Poultry** » Thu Jan 05, 2017 6:46 pm

HEHEHE

wow that is the most complete Fairy Fart I've ever seen! looks like a quail egg. fry it up? its better for ya, lower in cholesterol.

Nickyn · Post by **Nickyn** » Thu Jan 05, 2017 7:15 pm

I think that a quail egg is 2x as large! Lol. Boy, that was hard to crack! We had to get a knife & smash through! When I tried to crack in on the side of the plate, I thought that I had broken the plate!

I did a double take when I saw it on the ground - thought that I had lost a button off of a shirt.

Post by **Home Grown Poultry** » Thu Jan 05, 2017 7:25 pm

LOL! hahaha I have quail egg scissors to open them, works like a charm. but that egg must have been one heck of a tough egg!

when I zoom in that shell is very thick isnt it! I bet all the calcium that would have went into making a full size egg was used to make that one!

Nickyn · Post by **Nickyn** » Thu Jan 05, 2017 7:52 pm

That explains the thickness. The egg white was really thick too - jello consistency.

Everyone looks good in the coop. Ate their oatmeal like wild things and fought for the spots beside the roosters up on the roost. Who ever dropped the fart isn't admitting it!!!!

Jaye · Post by **Jaye** » Thu Jan 05, 2017 7:59 pm

That egg white would have made stupendous meringue ... except that there would have been precious little of it. :wink:

KimChick · Post by **KimChick** » Fri Jan 06, 2017 9:53 pm

When our RSLs started laying, we got a tiny egg, too.