Isa Brown laying tiny eggs with no yolk

[kirsty]

Has anyone ever come across this before, and know what is causing it, and if I should do anything about it? It's been happening for about 5 months, and it is just one hen, she is not laying normal eggs anymore. It used to be a bit of both. She is only two years old. The eggs are half the size of a normal egg, and have just as hard a shell, but they only have egg white inside. Cheers, Kirsty

 

[Fred's Hens]

Has she molted? Twice?

 

[Mason]

I have the same thing happen the last few weeks very small egg the size of a marble, hard shell, no yoke, the hens are all around 9 months old.

 

[the Precious Ladies]

One of my Chickens, an EE named Mya, Does the same thing. She healty and all, but I have the same question. Mya's 11 months old.

 

[perchie.girl]

Just looked this up and they are called believe it or not "Fart eggs" or Rooster eggs.

http://www.poultryhelp.com/oddeggs.html

''NO YOLK:

No-yolkers are called "dwarf", "wind" [or, more commonly, "fart"] eggs. Such an egg is most often a pullet's first effort, produced before her laying mechanism is fully geared up. In a mature hen, a wind egg is unlikely, but can occur if a bit of reproductive tissue breaks away, stimulating the egg producing glands to treat it like a yolk and wrap it in albumen, membranes and a shell as it travels through the egg tube. You can tell this has occurred if, instead of a yolk, the egg contains a small particle of grayish tissue. In the old days, no yolkers were called "cock" eggs. Since they contained no yolk and therefore can't hatch, our forebears believed they were laid by roosters. This type of egg occurs in many varieties of fowl. We've found them in chickens, both standard and bantams, guineas and Coturnix Quail (about the size of a small marble). The photos below show a Barred Plymouth Rock fart egg laid during the first week of April, 2004.

Pretty interesting website.