Strange!!! Did my rooster lay this egg?

[cmom]

Many years ago my pens weren't covered and if one of the birds (usually pullets who recently started to lay) layed an egg in a pen, the crows would get the eggs and carry them off. I would find shells outside the pens. Maybe something was able to get inside and carried the egg to where you found it.

 

[SueT]

There was a thread about a rooster, a definite crowing rooster with the hackle and saddle feathers, who changed sex and began laying eggs. So it isn’t completely out of the realm of possibility.....
Keep us updated!

 

[bren7]

No it's not an owl egg. It's a chicken egg. One of your female chickens laid it.
You better lay off the treats if you feed any and double check your feed to make sure it is a layer type feed.

Ok well it wasn't from my hens because they are cooped and they do eat layer feed. None of them have ever laid an egg without a shell. I get a softer shell on occasion but never anything like this. I wouldn't join a public forum and look the fool if I had an answer.

 

[bren7]

Many years ago my pens weren't covered and if one of the birds (usually pullets who recently started to lay) layed an egg in a pen, the crows would get the eggs and carry them off. I would find shells outside the pens. Maybe something was able to get inside and carried the egg to where you found it.

Many years ago my pens weren't covered and if one of the birds (usually pullets who recently started to lay) layed an egg in a pen, the crows would get the eggs and carry them off. I would find shells outside the pens. Maybe something was able to get inside and carried the egg to where you found it.

We built our pen like alcatraz because we have racoons, bobcats and coyotes. Fence goes a foot below grade.. Only thing that might find a possible way in would be a snake.

 

[OhZark Biddies]

Ok well it wasn't from my hens because they are cooped and they do eat layer feed. None of them have ever laid an egg without a shell. I get a softer shell on occasion but never anything like this. I wouldn't join a public forum and look the fool if I had an answer.

hang around here on BYC for a bit and you’ll soon learn that there are a lot of people on here that lack the ability to say “I don’t know”

It’s an interesting conundrum you have, I hope you solve the mystery and let us know what you figure out.

My thought is that it is extraterrestrial chickens from another planet visiting your place. But 12 people are probably comment that there is no way an alien chicken could have laid that egg because earth’s gravity makes them not lay eggs, and alien chickens lay square eggs or something

 

[cmom]

I don't think anyone is suggesting you look like a fool. I have had birds for nearly 50 years. I have seen some weird things. There is no way it can be said that the male layed the egg, because it wasn't observed only that an odd egg was found. I have seen females mount other females which is usually a dominance issue. Maybe your he is actually a she. There have been females that try to crow and act more like a male. I'm not trying to be rude and if want to think your male layed the egg, that is ok, but there could be other explanations but not obvious. A chicken having the sex chromosomes ZW is female, and a chicken having the sex chromosomes ZZ is male. I don't know for sure but it has been noted in humans that once in a great while a person XX is female and XY is male and an off spring may have an extra gene. XXY (as an example). Maybe that can also apply to chickens. In chickens it's the female that determines the sex of the chick, Z male and W female but all get a copy of the Z. In humans the males determine the sex, XY and give the baby an X for the females and Y for the males. Maybe your bird is a ZZW so it has both the male and female gene? Just a thought.

 

[CluckerFamily]

Do you have a trail camera that you can put in your yard? If it wasn’t your ladies or your rooster, I’m still thinking it could be a wandering chicken from someone else’s yard.

 

[cmom]

I love my cameras...

 

[FreckledEggs]

Ok...No my girls didn't do it. Only thing I can think is maybe a large owl. No other chickens loose.

That's a chicken egg

 

[Mellowmalt]

One of your chickens laid the egg and kicked it towards the fence, the cockerel picked it up and laid it on the deck. You can still see the stringy bit where he carried it.

Sorted.