These small eggs are called wind eggs

Lovely article on Nick’s smallest hens egg... wind eggs as we call them.

They are laid at the beginning and end of hens laying. I have collected loads over the years of chicken keeping and are so tiny. One I had was smaller than the nail on my little finger.

Here is a picture of some of them. The eggs with them are bantam eggs which are small too, about half size of average egg.

I have chicken page on Facebook if anyone else wants to compare their wind eggs.

Mandie Vertigan

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