The tiniest egg yet

Today I found the tiniest egg, so far, in the middle of the run. I think that the girl who laid it was unaware and just dropped it in the run. This one is the first one without a yolk. It’s a bit of a mystery as to why a girl should lay a tiny egg at this stage.

By a process of elimination I think this egg is from Salmon. The reasons for this conclusion are as follows. Cinnamon hasn’t laid for two weeks now but these tiny eggs are a feature of my latest breeder’s girls so Cinnamon is out of the running.

Smoke is out of the running as she is firmly broody and it can’t be Vanilla as she has just come out of being broody.

It isn’t Jasmine as she laid her first egg since her broody break, today, in the corner of the chicken shed.

Spangle laid today and lays torpedo shaped eggs. Marmite laid yesterday and today and today has gone broody. Yes, yet another broody girl!

That just leaves Salmon who last laid a week ago and yesterday looked a bit poorly as if about to struggle to lay. Her last couple of eggs had thin shells but for the last couple of days she has been going to the grit. Today she had bounced back again.

The odd thing is that this tiny egg obviously wouldn’t have been a struggle to lay (I wouldn’t have expected her to look out of sorts) and I wonder why it’s been produced at this stage. It’s as if it has been laid before being fully formed.

The latest tiny egg

This egg is not much bigger than a black currant and about half the size of a grape.

Tiny egg on the egg ramp

Left is Flame’s egg, next is Marmite’s and on the right is the tiny egg.

This tiny egg has no yolk

It is very odd.