Hmm...DH found a rubberband INSIDE an egg! PIC ADDED to post #22!

[Bettacreek]

Honestly, I'd take it to a vet and have them check it out. Even if you're 100% positive that it's a rubberband. It probably wouldn't cost anything for them to check it out. Something like that, it's always better to be safe than sorry. JMHO. I do agree with you, however, that it does look like a dry rotted rubber band.

 

[agnes_day]

i agree with that, thats for sure..i mean, what if it WAS a worm??

 

[HeatherFeather]

I've seen tapeworms...and it doesn't look like a tapeworm to me. You can tell a tapeworm is a worm-when you slice it, there are tissue structures inside, the outer skin is a little different than the inside.

I'm sure the OP is intelligent enough to figure out that it is a rubber band.

From personal experience, I'd say a guinea worm looks a lot more like a rubber band than a tapeworm does (tapeworms are so flat)....but even then, it also has tissue structures inside of it. Guinea worms are really rare, and need water contaminated with crustaceans (water fleas) to complete their life cycle, so once they're out, they're out. (ya, but lucky for me my college roomate's dog got one and we discovered it after having staggered home from the bar at 3am!!)

If there have been stones, and poop (ew!!!!) and a nickel and a lizard (!?!?!?!) inside an egg....then I guess this is totally plausible. Its crazy cause I suppose it would have had to work its way up the vent somehow to be in the place where the shell is formed. But yk...I've looked at my chooks vents before and they're flexing them...kinda doing 'kegels'...doesn't seem to crazy to think that all the flexing might have moved it upwards.

I think the REAL question is this:

who is bold enough to put on a rubber glove, and get out the ky.... and put something into their hen's vent...something small and inert and sterilized...like a glass marble...to see if it shows up inside the next day's egg??? (for safety, you'd have to keep her in a wire bottomed cage, in case she squeezed it out, so she didn't eat it)

I dare ya all!!!

 

[agnes_day]

that doesnt seem very bold...cruel maybe but not bold.

 

[Chickengal505]

hahaha i'm sooo entertained with these posts next thing you know there will be a deformed chick with half side rubber and half side normal!!!! I'm gald you didn't let the egg hatch(even though i doubt it would hatch) I wonder if the hen could tell the differance?

 

[BarkerChickens]

I have a broody sitting on eggs right now and Candling has not revealed a rubberband structure in any of the eggs.

Chicken Kegels!

I will pass on the KY though and just take someone elses word for it that it can happen!

 

[Coopdekerr]

I just found something that looks like a perfect, round, intact rubber band inside my chicken egg that I was preparing for breakfast. Searched the Internet and this is the only site that mentioned this problem. I am fairly new at chicken raising and have never seen this before. Any ideas of what it could be?

 

[CHICK4LIFE]

Your hen may have eaten the rubberband, thinking it was a worm.... ?