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woodle Forum newbie - be nice! Posts: 1 Location: Registered: January 2008	abnormally small egg Posted 307 days ago I am a very recent keeper of chooks and have so much to learn. I did get a shock today when I collected the eggs from my four chooks. One was hardly the size of a pigeon's egg (approx. 2.5cm across). Anybody got any ideas on what would cause this. I do have one chook that has developed a bare rear end, an area of approx. 7cm or 8cm in diameter. I only noticed this yesterday. Could there be a connection? I also have a chook that has always laid a lovely cream coloured egg,she is a Wellsommer. Lately some of her eggs have patchy dark areas on the shell or very tiny dark speckles. My chooks have a constant supply of pellets and I usually feed them some chookmix in the late afternoon along with any fruit and veggie scraps from the house. I also give them a wet bran mash in the morning. My husband also throws some grass clippings into the pen when he mows the lawn. I do not allow them to roam in the garden as I have just mulched to try to keep the plants moist. Any suggestions or ideas would be most welcome.	0 0 Alert moderator

pomolo Forum celebrity Posts: 471 Location: Registered: September 2007	RE: abnormally small egg Posted 307 days ago Try putting your questions on the Chook Chat Forum @ http://www.eboards4all.com/539153/index.html	0 0 Alert moderator

feathers Forum newbie - be nice! Posts: 2 Location: Registered: February 2008	RE: abnormally small egg Posted 271 days ago the exact same thing happened to me a few months ago, it was exactly the size of a pigeon egg... 2 of my chickens were already laying normal sized eggs when i first bought them, but the third youngest one wasn't laying yet... and then, since i've found that little egg, there's up to 3 eggs a day, rather than 2... i was thinking maybe it was a first-egg thing!	0 0 Alert moderator

14theroze Forum stalwart Posts: 224 Location: SW NSW Registered: October 2007	RE: abnormally small egg Posted 270 days ago Strange. I thought my chook was just not feeling the best or something. We've had our chook for a couple of years. Normally she produces perfect sized eggs. a few weeks ago she produced first a larger than normal egg and then 2 virtually half sized (or smaller than) eggs. It's obviously not just a first-egg thing with my old chook. The tiny eggs sure have us dumbfounded. _________ Even the hard, dull, dry ground harbours life - which is brought to the surface with the fresh touch of drenching rain (or the humble watering can).	0 0 Alert moderator

feathers Forum newbie - be nice! Posts: 2 Location: Registered: February 2008	RE: abnormally small egg Posted 270 days ago funny that! now i'm very curious	0 0 Alert moderator

14theroze Forum stalwart Posts: 224 Location: SW NSW Registered: October 2007	RE: abnormally small egg Posted 270 days ago I cracked open the tiny eggs today to add them to cooking and found they had no yolk. _________ Even the hard, dull, dry ground harbours life - which is brought to the surface with the fresh touch of drenching rain (or the humble watering can).	0 0 Alert moderator

Mausy Forum regular Posts: 35 Location: Registered: February 2008	RE: abnormally small egg Posted 269 days ago Come on over to Aussie Chook Chat. You can ask as many questions as you like and get plenty of answers. Mausy	1 0 Alert moderator

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