One of my EE has had practically nothing but ugly eggs since she started laying. Of the 5 eggs she has laid, only one has been normal looking. 3 have been covered in a gross membrane (like she was trying to form a second egg over the first) with extra calcium deposits, and one was so thin shelled that had it not been frozen solid when I found it I'm sure it would have been all over my hand. The one we got the other day was particularly gross, the membrane itself seemed like it had warts all over it and there was a large chunk of it that was bloody. I didn't take a picture of it, but that egg (and stumbling across the weird egg thread earlier this evening) has inspired me to start an ugly egg contest.
Rules:
>Can be any kind of egg (chicken, quail, peacock, emu, whatever) but must be entered for one of two categories:
1) deformities (odd shapes, membrane over egg, shell-less, etc)
2) blemishes (calcium deposits, blotchy color, hole in shell, etc)
>Please list breed of bird and age (if known)
>Please include any other fun information if you would like
>No fart eggs or just plain big eggs unless they are also ugly. These are fun to see too, but I don't consider them ugly due to their unusual size alone. In fact, most fart eggs are just plain adorable, and this is the ugly egg contest not the prettiest or cutest egg contest.
So, to get things started, here is the only picture of one of my uglies:
Breed: Easter Egger
Age: approx 6 months
sorry, the picture is a little blurry (stupid autofocus doesn't know what I want it to focus on apparently) but you can kind of see how it looks all warty and wrinkly. Once we broke the outer membrane off and rinsed a few of the extra calcium deposits off it actually looked pretty normal.
Rules:
>Can be any kind of egg (chicken, quail, peacock, emu, whatever) but must be entered for one of two categories:
1) deformities (odd shapes, membrane over egg, shell-less, etc)
2) blemishes (calcium deposits, blotchy color, hole in shell, etc)
>Please list breed of bird and age (if known)
>Please include any other fun information if you would like
>No fart eggs or just plain big eggs unless they are also ugly. These are fun to see too, but I don't consider them ugly due to their unusual size alone. In fact, most fart eggs are just plain adorable, and this is the ugly egg contest not the prettiest or cutest egg contest.
So, to get things started, here is the only picture of one of my uglies:
Breed: Easter Egger
Age: approx 6 months
sorry, the picture is a little blurry (stupid autofocus doesn't know what I want it to focus on apparently) but you can kind of see how it looks all warty and wrinkly. Once we broke the outer membrane off and rinsed a few of the extra calcium deposits off it actually looked pretty normal.
