Fairy eggs

Little-Old-Lady

Yesterday Erin found a teeny tiny egg in the backyard.  We were puzzled about where this came from, wondering which sort of bird would lay something so small.   But this morning Natalie found two more, this time in a nesting box which led us to realise it HAS to be a chicken!

After a bit of googling we discovered that apparently this is possible with hens when they are beginning their laying cycle, sometimes their hormones are a bit out of whack and the egg and the yolk aren't released at the same time.

I think it is Little-Old-Lady who is laying these eggs.  She is quite old (I'm thinking 9 or 10) and she has just lost her "babies" - we gave her some fertile eggs a while ago, four of which hatched but have slowly been taken by what we think are neighbourhood cats.  By the way, she is a very petite bird bantam so her eggs are always small, even at the best of times.

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