My First Egg Is "Hard Boiled"!?!?

[Henderson Hen House]

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That is a great idea!! Will poop wash it out??
Here are pics of the girls & I have compared with my store eggs and they ARE EXACTLY THE SAME SHAPE & SIZE.....I was surprised at how big they've been since my girls are only 21 weeks.

Just talked to a professor of poultry science at University of Arkansas, Dr. Clark, and he says it is slightly possible, but very unlikely since the shell, white, and yolk have no discoloration. The girls are getting locked into their coop tomorrow with dye up the vents to try to get to the bottom of this!

Thank you so much everyone!!

 

[Lisa202]

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Maybe your husband isn't "physically" putting the eggs there, but I think he is behind this. Maybe he is having someone else do it when he knows that you are "studying in the kitchen" so that you wouldn't see anyone walking in your yard. This IS a prank and you need to start pranking back if you want to find out what is going on.

Seriously, set your own eggs out there...do it. See how he acts and what he says.

 

[Lisa202]

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I 110% agree with this. I didn't even think at first about the size. My Australorps eggs at a month and a half after starting were not even that big. Plus the consistent shape and size and all, you just don't get that from a flock who just started laying. Someone is most definitely pulling a prank. You need to fight fire with fire, run a video (secretly) and then have a movie night when you catch the prankster. Then I would smash a whole dozen store bought eggs on their head. That is about all those store boughts are good for, right?

Good luck with your pursuit.

I like this...but then also some uncooked eggs in shoes...under pillows...you get the idea.

 

[HHandbasket]

In looking at the picture of your pretty little pullet, she does not appear to me to show the signs of egg-laying maturity. How old is she, again? Just based on how she looks, I would guess she didn't lay that egg.

I like the previous post about making some serious noise to your family about having to move because if there's something in the environment that is cooking eggs in the henhouse, that property is absolutely NOT safe, just imagine what could be happening to your insides, etc. Watch your family and see what happens. Go so far as to tell everyone to pack up a few things, you're gonna go stay a few days at Aunt Betty's (fill in the name of your relative of choice) because there's obviously radiation on your property and you don't feel your family can safely continue to live there and that you're going to call the state EPA to come test for radiation and hope nobody is sick... be dead serious about it ... watch their faces. Shouldn't take long for the culprit to come forward.

When all is said and done, you and your family will get a really good laugh out of this, and it'll become one of those funny family stories that goes 'round for years to come.

 

[UrbanGrower]

This is awesome!

I'd play along somehow, maybe mention how much you love deviled eggs, all the time, to anyone who is a suspect. Say something like, now only if they'd come de-shelled..

If they are the same size as store bought they were probably from the store.

 

[ranchhand]

I think the OP is having a lot of fun- either being pranked OR pranking us. Either way.....

 

[deerman]

Yes for sure a prank , a good one even got some on here thinking it could be from your hens.


My guess , your sister BF......GIVE AWAY outside rolled under the fence, not layed in a nest.


CAN'T BELIEVE people are falling for this ?????????


Next I would put a big goose egg in the nest.

 

[Catstar68]

time for the old lipstick vent test.....

 

[deerman]

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Why you really think those hens are laying solf boil eggs ???????? not !!

 

[Catstar68]

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Why you really think those hens are laying solf boil eggs ???????? not !!

oh Deerman you are so silly

no, but if another cooked egg shows up without any color then there is evidence those were not from those chickens. Someone is getting punked here and the idea is to get someone to finally confess it.