Strange!!! Did my rooster lay this egg?

[SueT]

Here’s the 2019 thread about another alleged egg laying rooster....
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/seriously-roopecca.1342040/#post-22008866
In these strange times, I’d say anything is possible.....

 

[TJAnonymous]

He's a beautiful rooster!

 

[JCaseyHammond]

This tops high on my list of strangest things I've ever seen... I came upon what I thought was a deflated water balloon on my back deck...and no idea where it came from... Nope, it has a yoke inside! My hens are all in the coop! The only chicken loose is the rooster! Is Zorro half Zoey?

Beautiful rooster!

A rat or a blue jay likely moved this shell-less egg from the henhouse to your deck. Find the hole and block it with half-inch hardware cloth. And give more calcium to the hens.

 

[The Moonshiner]

In these strange times, I’d say anything is possible.....

Yes. Like BS being posted in forums.
A rooster is never going to grow the parts needed to produce eggs.

 

[OhZark Biddies]

A rooster is never going to grow the parts needed to produce eggs.

No, but there are a couple documented cases of hens expressing secondary sex characteristics that make them look and act like a rooster to the casual chicken keeper, but still lay eggs.

I’m not saying that this is what is going on with these recent or past posts, just that it is a phenomenon that is known to exist, even if it is a very very rare one.

 

[The Moonshiner]

No, but there are a couple documented cases of hens expressing secondary sex characteristics that make them look and act like a rooster to the casual chicken keeper, but still lay eggs.

I’m not saying that this is what is going on with these recent or past posts, just that it is a phenomenon that is known to exist, even if it is a very very rare one.

I agree but there's a difference in a hen taking on rooster characteristics and a rooster suddenly turning into a hen or a rooster that lays eggs.

 

[CHlCKEN]

Maybe it’s just rubbery like a ball and bounced over to the porch (joking!)

 

[OhZark Biddies]

I agree but there's a difference in a hen taking on rooster characteristics and a rooster suddenly turning into a hen or a rooster that lays eggs.

I think we’re in agreement... I’ll mark you down for supporting my alien chicken theory also... I think I’m going to need the moral support once all the self righteous anti-alien chicken people start chiming in here

 

[black_cat]

Yeah, your rooster laid this egg. Watch out, you'll have a basilisk on your hands soon








In all serious, a hen likely laid this near the fence, and it likely got pushed out somehow. If you have a wide fencing, like welded wire, it could have been kicked out, then moved by the rooster or all manner of things.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

I found an egg in my bachelor flock coop once. I concluded it was most likely moved there by rats. They can fit through some really small spaces.