OK, please don't think that I am crazy. I found a tiny little egg in my coop and brought it to work to show my co-workers this strange event. It is about 1 inch long and an exact replica of one of my normally very large sex link eggs. A co-worker from Viet Nam swears that it came from the "Rooster"!! He said he saw it often as a child where his roosters would occasionally lay (?) a very small "egg looking thing." Any explaination is welcome, but has anyone else heard of this??
I get these from time to time also. Usually from pullets that are just beginning to lay. I even have one that was layed attached to another small egg, looking like a snowman about an inch and a half tall.
These small eggs are called "teenies", and usually they have no yolk. It indicates a malfunction, which is most often temporary, but some hens seem disposed to form incomplete eggs. I have one hen, just about a year old, that lays a normal eggs about 2x a week, and teenies once in a while. The smallest one was the size of an olive pit-smallest I've ever seen. The shell is normal, but the system just secreted a small amount of albumen, and no ovum was released. Infection of ovary can be a cause, and nothing really to do about it. CJR
Thanks CJR, you are correct, there was no yolk. I'll tell my Vietnamese friend that his childhood memories are distorted. I have an 8 month old bird that was recently attacked by a dog. He chewed up her working end pretty good. That may have caused the infection you mentioned.
By Robb on Thursday, January 18, 2001 - 07:22 pm:
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