Strange!!! Did my rooster lay this egg?

[cmom]

I have had eggs that were layed that looked exactly like it. This one had sat out a little while and dried out some but otherwise almost identical.

 

[Kiki]

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!

Omg.

 

[Kiki]

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.

Just because your chickens have not laid an egg like this before does not mean they won't lay an egg like this.

 

[KingD]

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.

If you don't know then we won't know.
No one will ever know. It'll be a huge mystery for ever.

 

[Kiki]

If you don't know then we won't know.
No one will ever know. It'll be a huge mystery for ever.

But we do know the rooster did not lay it.

 

[KingD]

But we do know the rooster did not lay it.

True fact. Or maybe the roosters just a manly hen. Still mystery.

 

[SulkyBantam]

That is a soft-shelled HEN egg.

Just curious, if there are so many predators why is the roo loose?

 

[bren7]

Thank you all for your kind and thoughtful comments! I do have trailcams but not facing where the egg was found. I had read a bit about odd instances of gender confusion and have seen the hens act like roosters on occasion. No crowing or attacking anyone but one has spurs. My roo crows,, has spurs and is a jerk which is why he isn't in the coop...cant have him attacking me when I'm trying to feed them..... with all the chemicals, hormones etc. they use these days nothing kooky would surprise me. Just wondered if anyone else experienced similar. I think the alien chicken is the best answer lol

 

[WindingRoad]

Thank you all for your kind and thoughtful comments! I do have trailcams but not facing where the egg was found. I had read a bit about odd instances of gender confusion and have seen the hens act like roosters on occasion. No crowing or attacking anyone but one has spurs. My roo crows,, has spurs and is a jerk which is why he isn't in the coop...cant have him attacking me when I'm trying to feed them..... with all the chemicals, hormones etc. they use these days nothing kooky would surprise me. Just wondered if anyone else experienced similar. I think the alien chicken is the best answer lol

All of my laying hens ( that's all I have is laying hens) have spurs.

 

[MountainWoman73]

Do you have a dog? It may have been laid somewhere else, and then moved to the porch. Soft eggs often get laid weird places, on the floor or the ground.