Laying an egg without a shell?

[Fancychooklady]

Well, crap. I WANT mine to lay a shell-less egg with membrane in tact, so I can incubate it and see what happens. But my darn girls just don't want to participate with this!

Frankly, I don't know why you would bother. When selecting eggs for incubation it is best to select the best eggs. To start the process with an inferior egg seems ludicrous to me. It has been done before!

 

[flockman]

Anyone tried to incubate a shell less egg?

Won't hatch it would dry up.

 

[Beekissed]

I'm with you roostersandhens. The stuff people are saying about killing their chickens is kind of harsh. I hope that it is all just a joke and no one actually throws a chicken to their hungry dogs. That would be kind of cruel. I think of my chickens like my children and could never even dream about harming them, I guess not everyone thinks like that.

No, not everyone thinks like that. Most folks eat chicken.

 

[chickenluver555]

No, not everyone thinks like that. Most folks eat chicken.

I know. I'm fine with others eating them. I am a vegetarian, so I don't, but the rest of my family does. I wish there was some humane way to kill them, unlike in factory farms and such.

 

[Beekissed]

I know. I'm fine with others eating them. I am a vegetarian, so I don't, but the rest of my family does. I wish there was some humane way to kill them, unlike in factory farms and such.

There is a humane way to kill them...the quickest way that makes them dead. There isn't anything more humane than that, really. I'm not sure what's inhumane about instant death. We should all be so lucky!

 

[brahamacocks14]

My hens laid soft shell eggs and I gave them grit which helped to harden the shell

 

[Fancychooklady]

My hens laid soft shell eggs and I gave them grit which helped to harden the shell

Only if it was oyster shell. Plain shell grit only helps with digestion.

 

[chickincrazy]

I have received three of them from my birds. It's not really uncommon for a hen to lay one of those every once in a while.

 

[windnleavesfarm]

Calcium. The shell is made of calcium. But only if this happens often. Just look at their diet.

 

[kodster]

I'm with you roostersandhens. The stuff people are saying about killing their chickens is kind of harsh. I hope that it is all just a joke and no one actually throws a chicken to their hungry dogs. That would be kind of cruel. I think of my chickens like my children and could never even dream about harming them, I guess not everyone thinks like that.

Well, all I have to say on this issue is that if you lop a chicken's head off and then immediately give it to the dogs to eat, don't be surprised when the dogs start to help themselves at the first opportunity. Too many dogs are killed because they start to do what comes naturally to them, and chicken/dog owners to inadvertently teach their dogs that it's okay to eat raw chicken can't make the connection, and the dog ends up dead as a result, inhumanely.