Wordless Wednesday – Weird and Wonderful egg

by Deb on November 2, 2011

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tiff November 2, 2011 at 9:21 am

Wow. That really is so interesting. My kids want to have chooks and Maddy is doing ag at school, so she is very interested in chickens and their habits.
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Laney @ Crash Test Mummy November 2, 2011 at 11:37 am

You learn something every day! We are quite keen to keep chickens, but there are already too many rats around for my liking. The egg looks soft, hard to believe it is actually hard!
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Deb November 2, 2011 at 3:28 pm: We actually find we’ve had less mice since getting chickens – they eat them! Haven’t seen any rats around though so I don’t know how they’d cope with them.

Sarah @fignutmum November 2, 2011 at 3:37 pm

Thank you so much for the explaniation.
So does that mean she will lay the eggs close together (in timeframe)
We have one chook who’s eggs have groves running down the egg, any idea what causes this?

Also would love a pic of your maternity area

Deb November 2, 2011 at 8:33 pm: She laid the first one sometime after they settled for the night, then the slab sided one the next evening. She doesn’t lay every day, but interestingly she was let out today and didn’t go back to her nest but laid one this evening while we were putting them to bed. It was really strange, she didn’t sit or anything we just looked away and the next minute she was standing with an egg between her legs.

I got some photos of the enclosure and put them up on Facebook.

Tamara November 2, 2011 at 6:14 pm

so interesting.
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nellbe November 2, 2011 at 8:19 pm

fascinating! even though we get free range eggs I have never seen this before.
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Deb November 2, 2011 at 8:35 pm: I get the impression they aren’t all that common, something has to disrupt the laying cycle. But there are also rules on eggs for sale – it would probably pass them because it’s whole, clean and it is a normal egg inside, but because it looks weird it wouldn’t be one I’d sell.

Tracy November 3, 2011 at 9:29 am

I love keeping chooks too- and kids love collecting the eggs. The double yolkers you get with a young hen are interesting too. We’ve only had one odd shell in 4 years tho. I wanted to try and raise chicks this year as we got some roosters last year but none of my hens have gone broody yet!

Deb November 3, 2011 at 11:37 am: We had one double yolker that was very obvious – the egg was double the length that hen usually produces.
We started with commercial hens and they rarely go broody so we got an incubator to play with – it’s too hard to transport animals out here so our only option is to hatch our own if we want anything different. Plus the highschool has an ag program and they are hatching eggs so we knew someone to help. And of course as soon as we did that two of our new non-commercial chickens went broody! We now have a third broody and we didn’t have anything to put under her, so she’s sitting on some bantam eggs and some duck eggs that my husband got from the school ag teacher. Will be interesting to see what she hatches.

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