A fairy egg is just a very tiny and often yolk-less egg that the hen has laid. It is safe to eat if you wanted to but it definitely won’t be very filling.
What causes fairy eggs happen?
Fairy eggs often times happen to a young pullet early on in her laying cycle. Although you will occasionally get a fairy egg from one of your older hens. Fairy eggs happen because either the hen wasn’t ready to lay yet or some of the reproductive tissue broke away. The egg-producing glands think that it is a yolk and the fragment gets wrapped up in the laying process so a yolk won’t be produced. You can totally still eat a yolk-less egg but it would just taste like the egg white and there won’t be much of it.
What to do with a fairy egg
If you don’t want to eat your fairy egg then you could just give it to your dog or simply throw it away. You can also eat it and then tell everyone that you just ate one of the smallest eggs ever! Maybe that’s how you can convince them to get chickens too.
What is the weirdest egg that you have gotten before? Let me know in the comments below!
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