Weird egg. Are we unique or simply going parent-crazy?

[Loopeend]

We have Indian runner ducks.

We had a big storm a few days ago and a lot of stormy stuff happened including a lot of tempex/styrofoam/expanded polyestyreen (those tiny white bubbles that stick to you when you are static) flew through the yard and in the pond and the ducks ate it... a LOT. They LOVED it.

We feared it would block their system and die. But they are still eating and pooping luckely.
But then today we opened this egg;

I know about the white thing in eggs, membrane residue, meaty spots, bloodspots, etc. and such. But it does not look like something we ever encountered. It looks exactly like two tiny (not attached to rest of egg or each other) tempex bubbles. They ate. But I'm quite sure if tempex bubbles ended in an egg it had to travel to their bloodstream and their artery's are not big enough? I could be totally wrong on this. We washed it and touched it and pressed it and such and it still resembled two tiny bubbles of tempex.

I'm hoping we are just going crazy due to worry about eating the tempex; and their might be a perfectly normal explanation for this.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

Looks like styrofoam to me. LOL Did you take it out rinse it and see what it felt like ? I mean, if it didnt hurt the ducks I guess t wont you either . lol

 

[Loopeend]

Looks like styrofoam to me. LOL Did you take it out rinse it and see what it felt like ? I mean, if it didnt hurt the ducks I guess t wont you either . lol

It felt like styrofoam after rinsing and such.
But how can it end up inside an egg?

My partner threw it out. I'm more like just take a spoon and get it out and the rest of the egg will probably be okay... but can it even end up in an egg? How?

Isn't it just a coincidence of something okay/natural resembling styrofoam?

 

[Granny Hatchet]

only thing I could possible come up with is that styro is static/sticky. It could be in their poop for sure and maybe unseen on your hand when you washed the duck egg and stuck to the outside of the shell?

 

[Granny Hatchet]

Do you have more eggs to check or check hers again tomorrow ? I would be interested n seeing it. BTW, nice yolk color

 

[Loopeend]

only thing I could possible come up with is that styro is static/sticky. It could be in their poop for sure and maybe unseen on your hand when you washed the duck egg and stuck to the outside of the shell?

I don't think that can be. We put the egg in water before using it. While handling it we didn't see styrofoam. Also not when laying it in water do determine it's freshness. And also not when rinsing it thouroughly under the faucet before cracking it. And we washed our hands before all of it and during it. And it ended up in the membrane-residue part of the egg. Inside it.
It's not that it is 100% out of the question; but I tend to it being an accidental nature/membrane thing more then a styrofoam-transaction. Since we have 0 styrofoam on us, in the coop where the eggs are layed, in our house, for all the days we are working to remove it from our property (we also have no static weather now) and we immediately build a fence so the ducks would no go in the part of the yard where the styrofoam landed, because it is only one part of the yard.

 

[Loopeend]

Do you have more eggs to check or check hers again tomorrow ? I would be interested n seeing it. BTW, nice yolk color

We cracked another from another duck from the same day but it was okay. If more have it is going to be found out when we use eggs again the next days. Thanks for the compliment on the yolk-colour. But I'm not the one making it We have a climate that makes an easy yolk-colour and we don't have anything to do about it. But I'm secretly still flattered *blush*.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

well, thats a pretty cool phenomena !

 

[Loopeend]

well, thats a pretty cool phenomena !

Do you mean the styrofoam or the yolk-colour situation?

 

[Granny Hatchet]

The stryofoam in the egg.