One day it was a shrimpy egg and the next it was an incomplete one. Looks like a bullet hole in it but it is just not finished. Such sillyness from those gals out back...
As a city slicker I don't get to see the miniature eggs.....do you have a pygmy chicken that you don't know about? The incomplete egg is obviously the result of a chicken being frightened right off her nest at a most inopportune time. Do you let your hens watch late night cooking shows? The kind featuring omelets? Jerry
I've seen small eggs before but never ones that were incomplete. Do you know which one of your girls laid it? Very strange.
Let's hope practice makes perfect for them Barb. Once they get the hang of it I'm sure they'll be producing decent sized, whole eggs for you. :-D
Practice makes perfect, and pretty soon your new layers will be putting out big, whole eggs. One of our hens laid a soft-shell egg once--the egg was complete but the shell was like gelatin. I told her not to play around with the recipe, and she hasn't done it again.
Now thats amazing. I learn something new everyday on GardenStew. And I thought I was to old to learn anymore.
Look and see what was in that small egg. We couldn't decide if that little thingie in the middle was a yolk. I think it was.
When we had chickens our pullets also laid mini eggs and odd shaped ones. They will get better though. Just give her time.
We used to call them practice eggs. We had a goose that laid a small one once. Goose eggs are much bigger than chicken eggs so it looked really funny in the nest with the other ones. dooley
