Tiny Egg

[Phoenix82]

I've just been to collect the eggs and found this



It could be from either my Bluebell or Black Rock ,neither of them has laid for a while and the Black Rock did lay a Lash a few weeks ago.

What's going on??

[serama1]

Looks like a banty egg: pic of a banty egg compared to a small L/F egg:

[Phoenix82]

It's definitely not a banty egg,they are in a separate coop

[Phoenix82]

To give an idea of size



and what was inside

[chookmike]

I was about to say it was what I have heard referred to as a 'wind egg' We have had two or three of these over our two years, but have never had one with a yolk. Ours were also dark brown and speckley

I guess the magical process of making such a beautiful thing as an egg is bound to have the odd miss-fire now and again - especially if one is firing up a system that has been on hold for a while.

Cheers

[kitla]

They're hilarious aren't they! My huge brahma leaves them on the lawn sometimes,
& little blind Giblet made one last week that was sooo tiny, the size of a marble!

[Chookaholic]

my Vi did a wind egg not too long ago with a wee yolk in it .... very cute

[Kuikentje]

We had one like that a couple of weeks ago. And it was a bantam egg to start with, so it looked like a quail's egg. Perhaps I should have done some nouvelle cuisine with it.

[kitla]

I wish I'd kept all the recent ones, it would be fun to blow them, paint them and
hang them up for easter!