Tiny egg

In the coop this morning, there's a perfect egg, with a beautiful brown speckled shell, but it's only about an inch long.

All my chooks are 1-3 years old and they all lay normally most of the time.

Does anybody know what makes them occasionally lay a tiny little egg like this one?

We had one a month ago , very porous shell which made the mini egg dry out fast.
Ours did have a tiny smear of yolk in it when i blew the contents out to save the shell.

Oh dear    It's deffo here somewhere as this is where I found out what wind eggs were, which is what your hen laid

Have a look through the Hen House and chicken chat. There might be some info in the poultry stickies too

I think it's a common occurrence and nothing to worry about.  I shall go have a look-see as well 

I did an advanced search and found two threads and lifted this comment from one of them

Hope this helps  

Thanks for doing the legwork (or rather, mousework) compostqueen - interesting. This is only my second wind egg.

No wind eggs aren't rare.  Here's a couple mine laid recently.



HF