Tiny White Mystery Egg

[saving grace]

Hello! A couple of weeks ago I started getting tiny white eggs in my nesting box. I thought at first that it was my four month old Silkie pullet laying them, since it's the same cream color my other Silkies lay. But I sold that pullet and I keep finding them!

My three silkies can't get up into the nesting boxes, so it can't be them. They always lay on the floor. Other than them, all my other hens lay full sized eggs that are brown, blue or green. I have Buff Orpingtons, one Black Australorp, and lots of Easter Eggers.

I do have one Australorp × Orpington pullet that is due to lay, but I only let her into the flock recently, after the tiny eggs started appearing. Plus they lay a brown egg anyway.

Here's a picture. The first egg is a normal size, second is Silkie size, and the third is the mystery egg. It looks smaller in real life.

And this is how small the yolk is.

Nothing makes sense! What's going on here?

 

[aart]

I have Buff Orpingtons, one Black Australorp, and lots of Easter Eggers.

EE's can lay blue, green, brown, or white.

 

[saving grace]

EE's can lay blue, green, brown, or white.

Yes, I do know that. However, all my EEs have been laying for a year now, and none of them lay a white egg. Unless for some reason one of them didn't start laying until they were quite old, and by some crazy chance they're the only EE I've ever had to lay a white egg? Plus, why is it so tiny!?

I'm dumbfounded. I wish I could set up a camera or something.

 

[Yardmom]

A game cam would work in this situation. You mentioned silkies. Are they laying? Are you positive they are not getting up? I have a Silkie roo that somehow gets in top of their 5 and a half foot pen

 

[aart]

all my EEs have been laying for a year now, and none of them lay a white egg

Oh, I must have missed where you stated their age.

Sometimes when ramping down production before molting, you'll get some smaller eggs.

 

[MountainWoman73]

Something like this happened to me once. I ordered a variety of chicks and some died, so I was mixed up about what I had. I had what I thought was an EE laying blue eggs. And then, like a year after I got her, I started getting white eggs. Turned out I had an Andalusian. She had been going into nest boxes and taking credit for her sister's blue eggs, but didn't lay until she was 11 months old.

 

[saving grace]

So, I solved the mystery.

I accidentally sold one of my older silkie hens, not the pullet! Even though the pullet is only 4 months old, she's the same size as the older hens.

So it is the silkie pullet laying the tiny white egg, which solves everything. I caught her in the nesting box yesterday.

I feel like it's crazy young for a silkie to start laying, as well.