New to chickens

[msyslo]

I am Michelle and I am new to raising chickents. I have 10 hens. We got 7 them as chicks and three from other people at a later date. They are all with the exception of one about 1 year old. They all have been laying eggs since January. I get 8 to 10 eggs daily. Too much for us. We started selling them to coworkers. One of the eggs turned out to have a 4-day old chick in it. We don't have any roosters. Don't know how this could of happened. She sent me a picture this morning while preparing breakfast.

 

[LaurEliz]

There has to be a rooster somewhere nearby for this to happen. If you're 100% sure none of your chickens are roosters, could it be possible that a neighbor has chickens and one of their roos could have wandered over and mingled with your chickens?

 

[Angeline1978]

How long have you owned them? If you have had them more than 2 days, there is a rooster in your hen house.

 

[msyslo]

How long have you owned them? If you have had them more than 2 days, there is a rooster in your hen house.

We have had most for 11 months. The new ones we got new ones about 6 months ago. Nobody is crowing. We are getting 10 eggs a day from 10 chickens, so that would mean one is laying more than an egg a day if one was a rooster

 

[Kiki]

We are glad you joined our flock.
Jump right in and make yourself at home.
Could this person also be buying eggs from someone else? If you don't have rooster/s then it's obvious this didn't come from one of your eggs
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[drumstick diva]

That's a real puzzle, if you find out how that happened please let us know. That would scare me out of eating eggs forever.

 

[Spartan22]

I’m not an expert but I think chicks develop mostly from the egg yolk part since the bullseye is normally in the egg yolk. That seems to me a part of connective tissues of ovas detached before it got incapsulated by eggshell, another thing there is no veining around the eggs that normally will start if there is an embryo forming. Just my unexpert opinion.

 

[Latestarter]

Greetings and welcome to BYC! So glad you joined us. All I can say is WOW! That is just too weird! If you've had all of your hens for more than 30 days, and no rooster, There's no way the eggs could be fertile. I don't see a fertility bulls eye in that yolk either. That may be something else entirely that got encapsulated in the egg. Chicks develop from the yolk, not separate and outside of it.

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ETA: I didn't answer your survey because the answers offered don't really make sense associated with the question asked.

 

[007Sean]

Howdy Welcome to Backyard Chickens.
I tend to agree with @Spartan22 but then again, @KikisGirls and Balut, could have been somewhere in this mystery!

 

[Teila]

G'Day from down under Michelle Welcome!

I am swaying towards your coworker either mixing up your eggs with some (s)he has gotten elsewhere or may be even playing a prank on you?

I do hope you enjoy being a BYC member. There are lots of friendly and very helpful folks here so not only is it overflowing with useful information it is also a great place to make friends and have some fun.

BYC has Topic of the Week discussions which I have found to be a great resource, informative and sometimes entertaining; so definitely worth checking out.

If you would like to share Pictures and Stories of your flock, you have come to the right place. BYC’ers never tire of these and do not back away slowly or commence eye rolling when the photo album or home videos come out

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