Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Poultry and Pets => The Hen House => Topic started by: Skywise on April 23, 2012, 12:46
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Hi
One of my girls has laid the most odd looking "thing" today.
I just went out to the run to give them fresh water and food when I saw something really weird in the run. It's an egg of sorts but it's huge and squidgy.
It's about 4 inches long and about 3 inches around, like a sack made out of the inner membrane of an egg (like when it's a soft shelled egg). The sack is full of egg white with a hard, proper, egg inside it.
I *would* post a photo but I don't have the camera at the moment.
Anyway - has anyone come across anything like this before?
The girls all seem to be fine - I've checked them all over because I don't know who laid this monstrosity - with no problems at the rear ends, and they're all wandering about happily feeding, but I don't know whether this is something that just happens sometimes or whether I should be concerned.
Any advice appreciated . . . . .
Thanks
Sky
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I have heard of an egg within an egg although it must be unusual for one inside a shell-less egg. I can only assume one got stuck and she formed another one around it and then rushed to get it out :)
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I think I've found out what it is now - after a couple of hours on t'interweb I found a site called Brown Egg Blue Egg which has pictures of weird chicken eggs (and some are *really* weird :ohmy:) and they're calling it an egg-in-a-bag
Anyway, for anyone who wants to see the 'orrible thingy I found this morning, here's the linky and what my girlie laid is the fourth picture down. I really wouldn't go any further down the page than that if you've just eaten . . . . . . .
http://www.browneggblueegg.com/Article/WeirdEggs/WeirdEggs.html
Hopefully this will allay the fears of anyone else finding this sort of thing
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wish I'd taken your advice, not nice :(
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yuk!!! Poor chickens.