Thursday, July 1, 2010

The tiniest egg


Something caught my eye in the barn the other day.
On the inside of the garage door, I could see something that looked like a nest:

I watched it for a couple days but never saw any activity around it.
Finally, I needed to pull the nest down because I wouldn't be able to open that big door without dumping the nest's contents:

and, besides, I really wanted to see what was inside:

Can you see the hair in the bottom? That would be courtesy of either Beau the donkey or Dolly llama:

Sadly, this little egg will not ever hatch and I never did see the bird who laid it:

But, as I have a tendency to do, I needed to do a size comparison.
From left to right, here is a normal-size chicken egg from my girls (2.3 oz), a ridiculously small chicken egg one of my hens gifted me with the other day (.3 oz!) and the tiny barn egg (wouldn't register on my scale):

The tiny barn egg and a quarter:

Here's my little red farm truck with my normal sized chicken egg:

the ridiculously small chicken egg:

and the tiny barn egg:

For additional perspective, here's this:

What it that, you ask?

Roxy's such a good sport.

28 comments:

  1. Oh Wow just look at that little egg!
    Gee our hens have given us some odd eggs over time...Long,small,huge!
    I love birds nests though they are the ultimate little creators..

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  2. OK, Danni - you now made my early morning, and I can go to bed with sweet dreams rolling around in my pea of a brain - well, maybe my brain is bigger than the little barn egg - but not much! I'm glad you've got such a cooperative puppy, I don't think I could get any of my cats to do that. Hope you have a good Friday. Take care, from KY.

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  3. Wow that is a tiny egg. Love the nest...so cool, it's amazing what they all use to make them. I found one at the DSC that had blue twine and lot of donkey hair in it. Blue twine is almost as good as duct tape in it's many uses lol

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  4. Now that's a tiny egg! Imagine the itty-bitty bird that would hatch from an egg that size!

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  5. That is about the size of my parrotlets eggs. Tiny little things and when they hatch, tiny little naked babies.

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  6. Here I am with my thumb and index finger a half inch apart, trying to imagine that itty bitty egg. And I'll bet I'm not the first.

    Won't be long now til my girls gift me with their first attempts. Now the pressure is on to go get a scale and some egg props. See what you've done?

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  7. hahaha! What a good girl! I wonder if it was a wren egg Danni? Wrens love to make nests in the strangest places. So sad when it all doesn't work out.

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  8. Roxy's expression in the last picture is priceless!

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  9. Look at roxy! Shes saying, I cant believe you are making me put my foot in this truck *and* you are going to take a picture of it....That look she is giving closely resembles the, Im eating look. Im just sayin.

    That is an itty bitty egg. :-) And an itty bitty nest. So sweet. And whatever little birdie made that put a lot of hard work into it...and how cool to see your critters fur in there.:-) See? *everyone* loves your critters.

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  10. Oh my that is one tiny egg. Thanks for the laugh with the eggs in the back of the truck. :)

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  11. Roxy looks as if to say, "Mine!"

    Any more bats yet?

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  12. What a really fun and pretty post - I'll keep wondering who might have laid that tiniest of eggs! Thank you for sharing :-)

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  13. Wow, that is a tiny egg! I love your props and size comparisons. Roxy is such a good sport!

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  14. that nest is so awesome. thanks for the egg comparison!

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  15. Great pics, and ahem well someone is really into comparing eggs! tee hee :O) teasing you...

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  16. Humming bird? Too bad you can't try to hatch it - or did/are you?

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  17. It's so cute! but kinda sad that it never hatched. It was fun to see the comparison to the chicken egg. We had chicken when I was growing up and I remember that sometimes they laid those tiny eggs.

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  18. Oh my! A mini egg for sure!

    Maybe a wren of some kind...

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  19. OMG. Love the truck and LOVE Roxy. :)

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  20. Roxy, as Vanna. Adorable. That is the teeny, tiniest egg. Definitely should be added to your collection.

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  21. Wrens are the funniest little birds. They are also my favorite. I have several nests that have abandoned eggs in them. I have no idea what that behavior is about.

    I hope Roxy got to play with the truck. She looks a little sad in the last picture. :)

    PS...I've got Aiden on my own little prayer list. He'll do great!

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  22. how fun! Love all the size comparisons!! Too bad you don't know what kind of bird laid it.
    ps-had my baby-it's a boy! :-)

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  23. The egg on the little red truck is priceless! Great post...Kim

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  24. Wow! That does put it in perspective!

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  25. Roxy has that look that dogs give you when you make them do rediculous things and they are trying to be a 'good dog'. Cute post!

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