HAPPYCHICKENLADY17
Songster
MY chicken just laid an egg covered in a yellow substance, looks like maybe an egg yoke...i looked for a shell thought the egg was cracked , but it was not....is that strange???
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So i discovered that same thing the other day and another hen must have laid an egg in the same box, crushed it and they all ate most of it. But i ended up finding yolk on quite a few with seemingly no shell.MY chicken just laid an egg covered in a yellow substance, looks like maybe an egg yoke...i looked for a shell thought the egg was cracked , but it was not....is that strange???
So i discovered that same thing the other day and another hen must have laid an egg in the same box, crushed it and they all ate most of it. But i ended up finding yolk on quite a few with seemingly no shell.
At least that’s what happened here. Do you have more than one hen that uses that nest box?
So i guess i should clarify. I don’t have egg eaters. But a few ladies have shells that are not as hard as the others. And when it’s in the nesting box for the day and they just get broken. And if they are broken they are free for the eating!not many use that nesting box, they are newly built....i do not have any egg eaters this has never happened before, i dont know if there was an egg already there and another hen just laid the yoke on top of it....wish i could be there 24 /7 but i cant, so for now its a mystery
It's possible that she passed a yolk after laying the shelled egg.MAYBE i wasnt clear as to what i found...i found a regular normal egg in the nesting box, it looked like it had been dipped in egg yoke....no shells around, no trace of any other egg