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

[Mahonri]

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I believe that they think there was a rubber band in the egg. I don't doubt that!

Nickle... don't believe it.

Lizard... nope, don't buy it.

Call me a cynic.

 

[Marlinchaser]

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That sounds fishy to me, I dont care if it was a rubber band or a worm, if its in my egg when I crack it, that egg gets thrown out, and the pan scrubbed, I dont finish cooking it, unless of course, he let you have that egg, in that case take the skillet and whack him upside the head with it.

 

[BarkerChickens]

Alrighty...I asked DH to really explain how it happened..here goes...

Wiped out the pan...sprayed it with PAM. Pan gets hot, grabbed eggs (which he always wipes them if necessary...he is positive it was not on the egg) and cracked the eggs into the pan. Then, before the eggs turned white, he noticed the rubberband in the white section of one of the eggs. At this point he hadn't even touched the spatula. So, clean skillet, clean eggs, no spatula. DH said he is 99% positive it was in the egg.

So, hen or roo had rubberband on butt, mated, then rubberband goes inward and wahla! rubberband in egg?

 

[BarkerChickens]

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Thanks, but I'll keep the rubberband. Eww!!

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That sounds fishy to me, I dont care if it was a rubber band or a worm, if its in my egg when I crack it, that egg gets thrown out, and the pan scrubbed, I dont finish cooking it, unless of course, he let you have that egg, in that case take the skillet and whack him upside the head with it.

Thankfully I was at work! DH is definitely the 10 sec rule type...and in this case, he will argue the egg was fried, so were the germs. Yep...and I still kiss that mouth.

 

[fancbrd4me02]

I think that if your hubby isn't playing a joke on you that it is most likely that a rubberband fell into the pan, possibly from a food package, mail, etc.

 

[redhen]

Well i believe her...
i think it was just a freak thing and it happend. How can anyone say that it could NEVER happen? I know i've gotten some weird things in my eggs...one had like meat from her insides in it...or a piece of ovary or something... (not sure what it was...)
and other people here have shown some crazy pics of things like that on here too.... so never say never folks.....

 

[BarkerChickens]

Thanks, Wendy!

 

[CityChicker]

Okay, the thing with the lizard in the egg has been reported in several articles. That is at least somewhat plausible because a lizard is a living creature that is motile. Granted, it is highly unlikely, but it is possible that it climbed into the hen. The same holds true for some types of parasites. Worms *can* be found in eggs under rare circumstances, that is a known fact. Again, it is rare, but it is possible and again we are talking about a living organism that has the ability to move. Various internal parasites have the ability to move through tissues beyond the digestive tract. Again, this is a known fact. This is how tapeworm cysts infect meat (muscle tissue).

If we were talking about something *living* (or once living), I think it could at least be more plausible. The thing is though, a rubber band is an inanimate object. That makes it much less believable. The far more likely scenario, as others have noted, is that something fell in the pan or was stuck to the egg. Of course, it is possible that the rubber band was some how drawn into the hen's body through the vent, but I seriously doubt it. What is impossible is that it was something that was swallowed.

 

[Mahonri]

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THAT, is the ONLY possible explanation. IKKKKKK!!!!!!

 

[Imp]

I'm a believer. If poop can get into an egg, it stands to reason that other things in the digestive track could possible get in. Maybe the hen ate the rubberband and it made it past the gizzard. And can't their laying apparatus sometimes go backwards like in internal layers?

Imp- Hmmm, rubberbands as treats