Shell-less Egg

[Asha_Gail]

Found this in the coop the other day, was nervous it was a lash egg but I broke it open to see a normal yolk and albumen (albumin? I can't spell XD) but I thought I'd share to show what I got!

 

[Perris]

Yes that looks like just a glitch in the shell gland, nothing to worry about, but it will lose moisture quickly and bugs can get in, so eat soon if you plan to eat it.

 

[Asha_Gail]

Yes that looks like just a glitch in the shell gland, nothing to worry about, but it will lose moisture quickly and bugs can get in, so eat soon if you plan to eat it.

Thank you! Since I suspected it was a lash egg (never seen one so I was simply playing it safe) I popped it over the dumpster. I didn't think you could even eat shell-less eggs!

 

[Perris]

Thank you! Since I suspected it was a lash egg (never seen one so I was simply playing it safe) I popped it over the dumpster. I didn't think you could even eat shell-less eggs!

I wouldn't eat one raw or if it was dirty, but that looked clean as a whistle, and it was fresh as a daisy, so I'd have eaten that, or pulled the membrane open and given it to the flock (which has not led to them egg-eating here, despite doing that for nearly a decade now).

Fyi, this is what a lash egg looks like - these are small lumps of lash material, one cut open so you can see it's composed of blobs of coagulated pus. They are easy to distinguish from an egg once you've seen one for real.