A Soupbean Inside a Yolk!

[Lisamairey]

When peeling and slicing a hard boiled egg, I found a soup bean inside the yolk! One of my hens must have found a rogue bean under the bean trellis. Clearly, it was indigestible as it was intact...but why was it in the yolk and not in the poop? Never saw such a thing in my life!

 

[aart]

What is lash material?

It's hardened pus from an infection, can look like a bean.
Lash egg

It was a Rojo Domingo soup bean. I know because I grew them last summer. No way it was anything else. The girls were helping me clean up the garden. I guess they found a random lignified bean on the ground

It is highly improbable that something a chicken ingested would end up in the reproductive tract. When finding something odd in an egg, it's good idea to take some pics as you dissect for inspection.

 

[nuthatched]

Wierd. Do you have Pictures? It's likely lash material.

 

[Ridgerunner]

I wish you had a good photo. The digestive system and egg laying system meet at the vent. Occasionally a roundworm can crawl up the egg laying plumbing and become encased inside the egg. The egg gland isn't very far up that plumbing, that's where the egg white is added as well as the eggshell. I seriously doubt a bean could pass through the digestive system, especially the gizzard, and be intact when it got to the vent, let alone going back up to the egg gland. I'd call that more than highly improbable. But I try to not call things impossible with some of the things I've seen.

It still seems wild but I could see a hen getting a bean into her vent while taking a dust bath. When a hen lays an egg she extends a bit of her egg laying plumbing outside the vent. Only a short piece but that seals off the egg laying part from the poop part so it keeps eggs cleaner. I could envision a bean getting stuck to that when she was laying an egg and get pulled back up into her egg laying plumbing.

it's a shame you grew Rojo Domingo beans instead of some patterned bean. Those red beans are pretty nondescript. Some patterned beans are beautiful. Could you see the hilum? That's the part where the bean was attached to the bean pod.

 

[aart]

but why was it in the yolk and not in the poop?

It was not a bean.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I agree with the replies. There is no way for a bean to get into the ovary, infundibulum or anywhere else in the oviduct for that matter.

 

[GirlsHuntToo]

Following!

 

[Lisamairey]

It was not a bean.

It was a Rojo Domingo soup bean. I know because I grew them last summer. No way it was anything else. The girls were helping me clean up the garden. I guess they found a random lignified bean on the ground

 

[Lisamairey]

I agree with the replies. There is no way for a bean to get into the ovary, infundibulum or anywhere else in the oviduct for that matter.

But it did. It was a Rojo Domingo soup bean. Clearly a bean.

 

[Lisamairey]

It was not a bean.

It truly was a bean. I grew them last year. It was identical to what I grew.