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Thursday, January 9, 2014

Tiny Egg



Four (out of the 7 laid) eggs from the laying box today ... what's with the tiny tiny egg on the end? It's ridiculous! I have no idea who laid it. The one beside the tiny egg came from Baron, the green/grey one came from either Laverne or Shirley (Orpington's lay green/grey eggs) and the big one on the end, that's Poppy's of course. You'd almost think some strange bird came in to the garage and laid an egg in the laying box. It's way too small, too dark and speckled! How strange!

In chicken circles, they are called "fart eggs" "fairy eggs" or "Witch eggs".  

They often have no yolk or can be entirely yolk. 

They are sometimes caused by a disturbance in laying patterns, shortage of water or simply 

because hens are weird 

I haven't cracked the egg yet, so not sure what's inside. I'll let you know!


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