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    Hard shelled egg with just a yolk inside...

    Here is a picture of the eggs...before cracked and after. The light one has the lack of egg white, but this time there seems to be a bit more but it's jelly like in the shell. The normal egg is darker/brighter in color but maybe not quite what the images show. Sorry, the lighting wasn't great...
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    Hard shelled egg with just a yolk inside...

    There were a total of 6 so far, from one hen. The other hen is laying normal eggs. The two hens that are laying are about 21 months old. We bought those chicks in the Spring of 2019.
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    Hard shelled egg with just a yolk inside...

    These yolks were normal sized. Just no whites.
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    Hard shelled egg with just a yolk inside...

    One of my chickens are laying an egg with just a yolk inside. The shell is hard and looks and feels (and cracks) normal. There is just enough white to hold the yolk together. It tastes normal as well. This is not a one time thing. The last 6 or so eggs have all been the same. It's always the egg...
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    Ended Contest #3 Cutest Baby Fowl - 8th Annual BYC Easter Hatchalong

    Last Spring my Mother-in-Law found an abandoned (very obviously) mallard duck nest with 6 eggs. We had a hen, Farrah (Buff Orpington), that was a brooder. We don't have a rooster. We figured we'd give Farrah something constructive to do so we put the duck eggs on the nest.Well, come June 15...
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    Wild ducks..

    Thank you Weehopper and Amiga for your posts. I was hoping they would eventually just fly away and I think that they might have already. I haven't seen them for a couple days now, except I might have seen one fly over the yard above the trees this morning. Unfortunately it is duck hunting...
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    Wild ducks..

    We have only had chickens for a couple years. We have four, two Buff Orpingtons-Farrah and Fowler (Amy died), one Barred Rock(Penny). Yeah, "Big Bang Theory". We should have three barred Rocks (Penny, Penny, Penny). And our newest one is a Black Australorp (Sadie). My Mother-in-Law found an...
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