fart eggs/fairy eggs

[cerulean19]

Fairy eggs are extremely small eggs sometimes randomly laid by chickens. Maybe 1/4 the size of normal or less, sort of rounder. Also called fart eggs. Here's a random picture https://elderoaksfarm.files.wordpress.c ... .jpg?w=768 and another https://citygirlfarming.com/wp-content/ ... rteggs.jpg

Could be a rare curio with chickens laying them?

[Zentetsuken]

fart eggs

[sMartins]

Are you telling me that they are called fart eggs because she unintentionally lays them when they are not yet ready .... Jeez, how many things you learn

[Kyrex]

+1

[cerulean19]

Are you telling me that they are called fart eggs because she unintentionally lays them when they are not yet ready .... Jeez, how many things you learn

Yep, basically, accidental and inconsequential. They don’t have a yolk, which is a big reason they’re so small.

Chickens sort of have an assembly line of yolks in development that they plop into the egg, then build a shell around. But sometimes there’s a disruption for whatever reason.

[lordgrunt]

in my youngin days i recall those too when grandparents were butchering hens, but those were going straight to trash.