We're Never Quite Sure...

...what we'll find in our chicken coop.  Not only does the number of eggs vary each day, but also the color (from fairly dark brown to almost white) and the size (from jumbo eggs that don't fit in a standard egg carton to eggs that are too small to even meet the Medium grade at the grocery store).  But even though we've learned to expect the unexpected, even we were surprised at what we found a little while back.

Here is a typical egg from one of our chickens:

But this is what David found one day when it was his turn to collect the eggs:

It was more round than oval, a lovely dark brown color with some speckles, and was much smaller than anything we've found before.  See how it compares?

And another comparison shot:

I don't know what was going on with the chicken that laid it, but an egg is an egg, and we used it anyway.  The shell was very hard to crack, and the yolk was tiny; but the breakfast smoothie I put it in didn't mind...and neither did we.   :)