Topic of the Week - When eggs go wrong

[Tretinker]

I've noticed the blue egg and white eggs sometimes have this weird internal speckle to them.

Their fresh egg from today doesn't look like this but the eggs that are a couple of days old look like they have developed a speckle inside the shell.

Is this normal or am I going to crack these eggs and find something gross?

 

[Callender Girl]

None of my "weird" eggs has ever really had anything gross, so I think you're probably going to find normal stuff inside.

 

[-Olive-]

Had this weirdo today, from some farm eggs I bought. Was a double yolker but the second yolk was stuck to shell/membrane. Gunna use what came out in some baking I think

 

[-Olive-]

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I got this egg this morning first wierd shaped one i have gotten since theses chickens started laying.

You eat it yet?

 

[Ilovemychicks08]

You eat it yet?

No tommarow morning i probably will.

 

[Baystatecop]

We get some odd ones once in a while, the fart-egg, or an oddly shaped one. But this is, by far, the weirdest shell-less egg we have ever seen. We could give the egg a squeeze, and the little "finger" on top would bounce up and down. View attachment 1138729

 

[Agronauts]

Associated question: why are my very fresh hard boiled eggs so hard to peel? What should I be doing to majke them easy-peel the next day?

I destroyed the first one I tried peeling. My (far more patient husband) had to peel the rest so I could make an egg salad. He didn't do all that well either.
Enter friend with diabetic dog. Her dog loves hard boiled eggs for a treat, so my friend bought a gismo called "Dash" that steams them. She said that aside from not having to mess around with timing them, they practically peeled themselves. So I got one. I just tried it with two grocery-store eggs and the rest all my chickens' eggs. I cooled them in a bowl of ice water and peeled them. The grocery-store ones did peel super easily and my chickens' eggs were definitely harder than those, but it was one heck of an improvement. The first one had a piece of white come off with the shell, but all the others survived intact. It was easily worth the 12 bucks I spent on it.

 

[Nyhillbillies]

I destroyed the first one I tried peeling. My (far more patient husband) had to peel the rest so I could make an egg salad. He didn't do all that well either.
Enter friend with diabetic dog. Her dog loves hard boiled eggs for a treat, so my friend bought a gismo called "Dash" that steams them. She said that aside from not having to mess around with timing them, they practically peeled themselves. So I got one. I just tried it with two grocery-store eggs and the rest all my chickens' eggs. I cooled them in a bowl of ice water and peeled them. The grocery-store ones did peel super easily and my chickens' eggs were definitely harder than those, but it was one heck of an improvement. The first one had a piece of white come off with the shell, but all the others survived intact. It was easily worth the 12 bucks I spent on it.

Hey, thanks for sharing your story! I will definitely look at the DASH, if no microwave needed. Steaming instead of boiling! Was the egg texture different?

 

[Agronauts]

Hey, thanks for sharing your story! I will definitely look at the DASH, if no microwave needed. Steaming instead of boiling! Was the egg texture different?

Sort of. This time they weren't rubbery. I usually overcook them (badly) because I DON'T want them runny - even a little in the very center - but this thing did them perfectly - all the way through - without overcooking them. Normal hard-boiled egg without being at all rubbery. And no microwave. Just plug it into an outlet.

 

[BDutch]

This week I would like to see and hear about when your hens got egg-laying very wrong.

I had a hen who regularly laid an egg without a shell. Sometimes I found the whole egg, sometimes an empty membrane. I hoped she would get over it after a period of not laying (a moult and a winter). But unfortunately it went very wrong. After a couple of months she got an internal infection and died.