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OH MY.. Why Did My Chicken Lay A Tiny Egg

I can always tell which of my ladies has laid an egg because the colors and sizes are so distinct. So why your chickens lay small eggs what to do.


Melissa Bahen On Instagram Our Hens Lay Such Tiny Eggs That We Usually Have To Add Extras To A Recipe And This Picture Took Me And My 9 Fresh Eggs Eggs Hens

Alternatively sometimes very late in a hens laying life she will lay a few fairy eggs as her hormone production is winding down.

Why did my chicken lay a tiny egg. Sometimes a hen may lay a small egg that still contains a yolk too even if she normally lays larger eggs. Modern layer hybrids are bred to lay lots of large eggs the more uniform in size the better. For example the indigenous chickens generally lay smaller eggs while improved indigenous chickens lay larger ones.

It was one-third the size of a standard chicken egg and not quite pink like Imans but not quite brown like Kimoras. Double yolks are a mistake in the chickens reproductive system that sometimes happens when a hen just starts laying eggs and her system is still trying to figure out how to do it correctly. After that its mostly a matter of breed.

Chicks from when they are one day old to when they are two months old should be fed chick mash after which they are introduced to growers mash. Fairy eggs can also be the result of stress or a disruption of routine. Read on to find out what goes into making these cute eggs so small and what you can do about it to.

Younger chickens tend to lay small eggs also known as fairy eggs but your chickens could also be laying small eggs for the following reasons. Its their genes. They are laying tiny eggs compared to the full adults but thats okay.

It may also be hereditary. And sometimes they are just a simple glitch in production. But this teeny tiny egg was a mystery.

It was about the size of a quail egg but I knew we didnt have quails in the yard. All chickens lay small eggs for the first few weeks after they begin laying. The 5 12 month old pullets 13 of them finally graduated to hen status.

It simply means your hen didnt release a yolk before her body started producing an egg to enclose it. Tiny yolkless eggs are sometimes known as witch eggs or fairy eggs.


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