One of the chickens laid a fairy egg. It is the first one i have gotten in 4 years. I saw an occasional calcium deposit on the original batch of chickens’ eggs. Ellis and Oakley at times had a weird bump at the top of the egg. However, these new pullets have just been going through it with their egg shells. I have to put an egg on the compost pile occasionally because im just not sure whether its closed all the way and void of bacteria. These pullets are making eggs that are a bit too large for their tiny vents and as they stretch they bleed a bit. This was my first time encountering that problem. At first i thought it was something dire that required my attention. Come to find out its just the result of a little tearing when the egg is too big and they will grow out of it as they age. They are making eggs that seemingly cracked and then fused back together. It ends up having a deep fissure in the egg shell down one side that doesnt appear to go all the way through to the membrane but i just put those ones on the compost pile. Ive not seen any excess calcium deposits on these eggs. In fact i think that is probably related to the feed the chickens are on. They were on a feed store version (copy) of a popular feed and i think they were putting too much calcium in it which can fry a chicken’s vital organs early. The feed store closed down and now we have to buy the generic feed and i havent seen any excess calcium deposits since now that i think about it. They just look like tiny little butterfly eggs all clustered on the egg shell but made out of calcium. You can usually scrape them off with your thumbnail. These pullets instead make eggs where it looks like a little ridge pushed up in a ring shape around the top of the egg while it was forming, or ones with a strange dented place in the egg shell, completely firm. These pullets are really putting out some strange eggs but the feedback suggests they still taste like regular eggs. I did open the fairy egg and there was no yolk in it. It was all egg white. The internet states a fairy egg results when an egg forms around a piece of dust or something, when nothing has dropped to form an egg around but it forms anyway. They typically only have the white and not the yolk inside when they are that small. I am not sure who laid it. That remains a mystery.
