Check out the size of this egg that Rascal laid today. It is by far her largest one yet. The egg carton doesn't want to close. I'm hoping for a double yoke.
What?what does an egg with a tail look like?
Aw, what a sad, sweet little story...I want a Maran for the cocoa colored eggsIt was from our very sweet but more than a little bit "special" Cuckoo Marans, so it was almost completely round, dark brown blotchy coating on the shell (as the dark brown eggs tend to be), a little larger than a golf ball, and had what looked like a thin tail or stem sticking out. The link I posted above has a photo of an egg very similar. I don't think I took any pictures, but I'll check.
One interesting detail was that the "tail" was kinda like a tube ... I think stuff was leaking out of it. We didn't feel like eating it, but our dog did.
That CM hen was such a site as a chick ... she was the only one of her breed we were able to reserve, and we got there late to pick up our birds and she was the only one left ... clearly everyone had rejected her. She looked wet with bald spots, just pathetic, but nothing "raw." She still has issues with her feathers (apparently some kind of genetic condition), and was picked on a lot when she was growing, so spent a fair amount of time in the hospital pen. She was usually in there with one of the pure-white Easter Eggers, and now they are fast friends, always together. We call them Cuckoo and Buddy for obvious reasons. Cuckoo struggles to lay "decent" eggs. She tends to produce fragile eggs, sometimes with almost no shell coating. She has laid a few from the roosts at night. Poor darling thing. She isn't the most friendly bird, but I love her to BITS.
Nevermind, Othello has started laying eggs. I found it under the ramp to the coop unfortunately it was cracked. Not sure if I have an egg eating chicken or if it broke itself. I'm going to have to look sooner tomorrow as long as it isn't cracked.
LOL!
