This is Just an FYI... GROSS GRAPHIC PICTURE ALERT!!!!!!

[speckledhen]

How old is your Panda? Does this sort of thing occur in some hens as they get old?

I have a six-year old Brahma that laid some very strange eggs a year ago, then nothing until this week, when she laid two full-size normal eggs, normal except one had no shell, but who's quibbling?

Panda is approaching 6 years old now. Never had anything that odd from her other than a small meat spot here and there over the years. Maybe this is a meat spot gone Godzilla, lol. But, yeah, older hens can have more egg issues, certainly.

 

[aart]

Interesting for sure...ya too bad you didn't break it in a bowl a color other than red and photographed before slicing...looks like a red grape in there.
This should go in the weird egg thread!

 

[speckledhen]

Naturally, if I'd known it was going to be weird, I'd not have chosen a harvest orange bowl, LOL.

 

[rancher hicks]

My usual habit is the crack the eggs into a bowl before using them. I've not found a blood egg in a while. I always worry about folks I sell eggs to and those I give eggs to. For a while I was marking the eggs with the breed to see if I could single out the culprit. No one got a BR egg from me for some time.

 

[realsis]

This is very interesting and confirms what I've read about, sometimes a piece of tissue can break off inside the reproductive area and the body is tricked into thinking that tissue is a egg so it goes through the rest of the egg making process being shelled. I've never seen it in person but I read a lot about chickens and I've read this is possible. Thank you for sharing this. Now I can put a image to what I've read.

 

[aart]

Naturally, if I'd known it was going to be weird, I'd not have chosen a harvest orange bowl, LOL.

LOL yeah I always use a white custard cup if I have a funky egg, can see better in them.

What was the consistency of the 'blob'?
Does she still lay regularly?

 

[speckledhen]

LOL yeah I always use a white custard cup if I have a funky egg, can see better in them.

What was the consistency of the 'blob'?
Does she still lay regularly?

The blob was almost spongy, held together, not hard at all, not mushy. She is still laying, eggs normal again. I was going to feed this bunch of eggs I was cracking to the hens so a meat spot wouldn't have been an issue, but this was just a meat spot on steroids, I guess.

If I am cracking eggs to put in a recipe, I do crack them separately and remove anything weird or just toss the egg if it's too much to remove, which is super rare. Once I got an egg with lots of blood in it from my black Ameraucana hen, but nothing solid, and she is older than Panda, so again, old hens can do this on occasion probably more so than younger ones in their prime.

 

[K Epp]

Could it possibly be a ovary? I've read were they sometimes come out in older hens.

 

[speckledhen]

Could it possibly be a ovary? I've read were they sometimes come out in older hens.

From the outside, it did look rather like a body part, a bit veiny, but I really don't know. If an ovary, it would be quite enlarged, I'd say. That was the size of a large marble.

 

[aart]

Quote: Like quarter sized?