April Barta
Songster
16/17! I’m so close to getting all of them to lay in one day!
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Wow that is pretty impressive for that age girls - I'm impressed! Shows that favorite girls don't necessarily stop earning their keep.9/15 today. Not too bad considering the 2 faverolles and the Ancona haven't been laying and Zorra and Persephone are sporadic. All will be 6 years old in a month. Zorra laid today, Persephone (72 grams) yesterday.
It will happen!16/17! I’m so close to getting all of them to lay in one day!
Yesterday as I mentioned I had a strange egg that broke when I tried to wipe it clean. It happened again today - both times on the floor of the coop not in the box. Kind of looks like a squashed cushion or somethingwith crinkled fabric! I haven't seen this before. Should I be worried?
Kind of normal if mis-shappened from the top:
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Crinkles on the ends, one worse than the other:
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And one side very odd and mis-shapened:
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The one with a tail - was the tail hard or soft?I wouldn't worry about the mostly dull egg, usually when I see one like that it was laid overnight from the roost. Maybe whatever it is landing in takes off the shine.
I've also gotten weird wrinkly eggs. Not real often and not as young as I think your girls are. But they usually self corrected on the next or subsequent egg. I can't find a picture of the "deflated balloon" egg I got like you showed but here is another odd one. The deflated balloon ones always seemed to have really thin shells.
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I even got this once
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