Help identifying 'thing' in egg.

[rosssfraser]

Hi, I've kept chickens for years and have never seen anything like this before. It was in the egg white when cracked open.

I don't have a cockerel.



Thanks

Ross

 

[enola]

Yuckkkkk!

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[casportpony]

Hi, I've kept chickens for years and have never seen anything like this before. It was in the egg white when cracked open.

I don't have a cockerel.



Thanks

Ross

That looks like an egg bit gone bad... keep an eye on that hen!

-Kathy

 

[realsis]

Wow that's pretty different. Not sure but I've read sometimes tissue can get expelled and the body of the chicken will treat it as a egg and it will go through the process just like a egg would and even get a shell formed over it.if I were to take a guess I would gather  that that is exactly what happened here. A piece of dislodged tissue went through the egg production process. That is why you found it in the egg

 

[Country4ever]

I would agree that its body tissue that got expelled as part of the egg.
I've had hens expel some pretty funky stuff.....but never inside an egg. Sometimes it makes me not want to eat eggs for awhile. haha

 

[rosssfraser]

Thanks for your thoughts. It seems like this is a very rare event as I can't find anything similar on-line. I'll keep a closer eye on the hens and stop giving the eggs away for a while.

Thanks again.

Ross

 

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