Nice video! The sound effects of the yolk popping out from the ovary were too funny!!!@R2elk Will have to verify accuracy of this but - if this doesnt go straight to it, scroll down to guy talking about protein. https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...o-big-of-eggs-how-to-help.292164/post-3563197
Also, after watching what a hen as to go through every day to lay an egg before the brooding starts, human pregnancy seems pretty tame.
She's born w/all the yolks she'll ever have, and each day one has to spin through sections to form what we see as an egg. If it gets held up in any section for too long,it gets more than needed of that section- kind of like a car going through a wash and getting held up in the wax section.
It could have got held up in the calcium/shell area, or it might have passed through an area too quickly, becoming misshapened.
I did have one egg bound this spring, the egg was followed by a lot of blood. Too early for me to be on my game to remember what I read went wrong, but obviously she hemorrhaged to death.
Here's a video of the process.
- anyway, that egg was still sideways, with the blood behind it. Her previous eggs were always smeared w/some blood. The only thing I had found abt the smears was that it was common in new layers.
