Another - My Chicken Laid a Boiled Egg - mystery post

[Skatchkins]

I searched Ms. Google and the mystery appears to have been posted and head scratched on BackyardChickens previously.

How the what-why did my chicken lay a boiled egg?

Scene: (law-and-order sound)
Morning egg eating time. I choose two eggs off the end of the spiral counter display, crack one over the butter simmer- it plops, and I ewwwwww.
Next egg, same shellish thing. I start spinning eggs willy-nilly thinking the wife mixed up some boilys, but she enters and adamantly denies. The eggs are two different colors, so definitely different chickens.

The wife conveniently starts to remember recently finding a couple strays off coop-campus, and attests to verifying the color of the allegedly errant drops.

Now, this is the State of Arizona, and while rampant newsperson conjecture speculates temperatures "hot enough to boil an egg on a politician's face," 112 F'ing degrees is actually not sizzilly enough to do such a thing. However, it should now be noted that the secret stash was situated upon scattered straw laying over one open-air, compost pile, a method of sorts that could cause the ambient air above and possibly said normally temperate eggs to reach plus 150 F'ing degrees, the very condition that the eggs in question could presumably soft boil, and in all truthful terms, the known temperature at which the aforementioned politician's pants do indeed catch fire.

 

[Skatchkins]

Take some eggs out of your refrigerator

Now why would a good chicken dad like me ever put his girls' fresh eggs in the refrigerator? This suggestion is the real farce at hand, good sir and or madam.

But you know what, I will pull a couple beauts out of today's bounty and sacrifice them to this experiment. The wife is guessing the last victims were only 2 days on the compost pile. She is somewhat trustworthy as a source.



Oh good, the sun is going down.

Eye witness checks the reenactment's placement

Judgement Day failsafe

 

[kcan2]

Watching from the distant land of Michigan to see what happens in Mesa, AZ!
Also enjoying your writing style, and moderate wisdom in stating that your wife is "somewhat trustworthy" when it comes to knowing what's up

 

[Skatchkins]

All right, fellow Chicken Tenders. I have some data today. It was overcast here till noonish. Photos taken at 4pm. I missed the sun directly on the reinactment scene victims. I was still taken aback at one result in particular.

Sun

Birthing box in the Cajun bayou shack coop.

Next the top of the compost pile (post direct sunlight), because I'm saving the what-the-what for last.

Ladies and gentlehens, the temperature in the direct sunlight "above" the pile, taken on the pallet wall:

I had to double check with the analog cooking temp gauge because I thought the digital had gone wonky.
Now, I cannot attest if the neighbor separator block wall is the real culprit here on the high reading. I can only reiterate where this location is in the sun. I will double check tomorrow.

 

[Skatchkins]

All right then. I pulled one of the subjects this morning and let it cool down inside then did the crack thing.

Not sure why we didn't have more soft boil on this one like the previous victims. I'm not exactly sure of the days they were left out there and then how many days they were on the counter in the spiral until they reached the bottom for cooking. Maybe I'll leave subject A out a couple days more then after.
Thank you all for playing along. It's been fun.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

At first it was like this...I'm not the most patient person on the planet ya know....

OK. I must admit, it was worth the wait. Bravo!

And yes! **THANK YOU** Very MUCH for the photos, the video, the explanations, very much appreciated.

Now, when's the next one going to be ready...??? I mean, it's been like another 15-20 minutes already...

 

[Skatchkins]

Today's update to Operation Mulch Bake? Organic Soil Boi... Operation Steamy Compost? Eh, we can just use Operation Hot Fertile Vent as a placeholder for now.

I believe yesterday's pallet data was somewhat skewed since we were measuring a surface temp by touching it with the sensors. So here is the nearby air's reading:

Now, here is the sun-stroking egg temp, taken with the sensors directly shell-on.

So it may not have had anything to do with pile venting heat as much as the blazing sunball exposure itself on our prenatal victims' heads.

Tomorrow Operation Crack Discovery?

 

[Skatchkins]

Thank you fellow AZ folks! Glad we were able to shed our God forsaken blinding light on this Phenomena for others. I went ahead and cracked the other test subject today. Sadly I still wasn't able to replicate the very first results as climatically. But I promised the showing, so it's time to publish the softer side of this story.
Not quite worth the slo-mo:

That's all I got, fyolks (I'm so sorry). Bring on any and all other experiments. This has been fun.

 

[jpalmatier83]

Today update to Operation Mulch Bake? Organic Soil Boi... Operation Steamy Compost? Eh, we can just use Operation Fertile Hot Vent as a placeholder for now.

I believe yesterday's pallet data was somewhat skewed since we were measuring a surface temp by touching it with the sensors. So here is the nearby air's reading:
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Now, here is the sun-stroking egg temp, taken with the sensors directly shell-on.
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So it may not have had anything to do with pile venting heat as much as the blazing sunball exposure itself on our prenatal victims' heads.

Tomorrow Operation Crack Discovery?

Operation Crack Discovery?

OCD. Sounds about right

Watching with bated breath.

 

[Vitzermite105]

To me, this is feeling a little bit scamish, especially how an egg needs to be boiled for at least ten minutes (which these eggs don't look like they've been boiled that long if they were).

How about you try an experiment. Take some eggs out of your refrigerator and set them in the same exact spot that you found those ones in with the same conditions and let them sit there for a couple of days (or however long those were suspected to be there). If you notice that the insides of the new eggs are looking cooked, then it's the temperature. If they're not, then someone might be playing a prank on you.

On a side note, a chicken cannot lay a boiled egg. Their body temperature will not rise to the temperature needed to be boiled, and if it does, then your chicken is either dead or close to dead.