chicksandchores
Songster
Okay, this is a new one on me.
I went outside to get eggs and found a fart egg in the floor, not a ton smaller than my bantam hen lays but still noticeably smaller. Picked it up, brought it inside to show the fam, and almost left it in the egg basket to be washed with the rest of them but decided it was too small to eat so I’d throw it back to the gals.
I chucked it against the ground so the shell wouldn’t be recognizable, and when I watched it burst, I noticed BRIGHT RED albumen so I went down to investigate (I threw it from my porch). When I got down there, I noticed that my eyes had not, in fact, been playing tricks on me. The albumen was something akin to the color of cherry jello, just not solid. The, er, “yolk,” or what I imagine WOULD have been the yolk were it a normal egg, appeared to be the most massive and disgusting meat spot I’ve ever seen. I’m talking over half an inch long and at least a quarter inch thick. I don’t see evidence of bleeding, but I’m checking vents when I put them up tonight.
I find it worthy to note that two nights ago, I shot a possum in the coop with what I had available; a high powered rifle. That was met with cackles and in the morning I found a hen dying (I believe her to have a heart attack being that she was 100% fine the day before and then the next morning was laying in the floor fighting to live). Could that disturbance have caused this egg?
I went outside to get eggs and found a fart egg in the floor, not a ton smaller than my bantam hen lays but still noticeably smaller. Picked it up, brought it inside to show the fam, and almost left it in the egg basket to be washed with the rest of them but decided it was too small to eat so I’d throw it back to the gals.
I chucked it against the ground so the shell wouldn’t be recognizable, and when I watched it burst, I noticed BRIGHT RED albumen so I went down to investigate (I threw it from my porch). When I got down there, I noticed that my eyes had not, in fact, been playing tricks on me. The albumen was something akin to the color of cherry jello, just not solid. The, er, “yolk,” or what I imagine WOULD have been the yolk were it a normal egg, appeared to be the most massive and disgusting meat spot I’ve ever seen. I’m talking over half an inch long and at least a quarter inch thick. I don’t see evidence of bleeding, but I’m checking vents when I put them up tonight.
I find it worthy to note that two nights ago, I shot a possum in the coop with what I had available; a high powered rifle. That was met with cackles and in the morning I found a hen dying (I believe her to have a heart attack being that she was 100% fine the day before and then the next morning was laying in the floor fighting to live). Could that disturbance have caused this egg?
