WEIRD or ODD Eggs pics!!!! :)

[FlyingNunFarm]

Anyone ever seen this? Looks like string glued to the outside. I can scrape it off and it's only on half the egg. Maybe bloom all bunched up?

 

[cmom]

Anyone ever seen this? Looks like string glued to the outside. I can scrape it off and it's only on half the egg. Maybe bloom all bunched up?

Not really sure, I'll have to research it. I get eggs like that every once in a very great while. I thought it may be calcium, but not sure.

 

[FlyingNunFarm]

Not really sure, I'll have to research it. I get eggs like that every once in a very great while. I thought it may be calcium, but not sure.

I tried looking it up but didn't find another like it. I actually watched her lay it. No problems there so I thought it was really strange when I picked it up.

 

[aart]

Quote: Has it happened before?
Was it still wet with bloom when you picked it up after she laid it and rubbed the substance off?
Was the substance dry and chalky, or soft and sticky when you rubbed it off?
I'm betting she had some urates on her butt fluff and they rubbed off on the egg as it emerged.

 

[FlyingNunFarm]

@aartHaven't seen one like that from any of the girls that lay colored eggs. She layed the egg then fussed a bit. Moved it over to by the other egg in the box. (A BCM egg so clearly not hers) She sat on both for a min or two then left.
You could be right it's from her feathers. It was chalky when I scraped at it but didn't bother really messing with it. She is notorious for her slightly dirty butt. Not sick or caked and gross...just ever so slightly dirty. LOL

 

[aart]

@aart Haven't seen one like that from any of the girls that lay colored eggs. She layed the egg then fussed a bit. Moved it over to by the other egg in the box. (A BCM egg so clearly not hers) She sat on both for a min or two then left.
You could be right it's from her feathers. It was chalky when I scraped at it but didn't bother really messing with it. She is notorious for her slightly dirty butt. Not sick or caked and gross...just ever so slightly dirty. LOL

Yep, urates...get them quite often here....usually easily 'dry-wiped' off.

 

[FlyingNunFarm]

Yep, urates...get them quite often here....usually easily 'dry-wiped' off.

Good to know. My first thought was "ewww worms" but I doubted it. Thanks

 

[AudreyB7]

Any ideas what is going on here???

 

[cmom]

Here are some websites with weird and funky eggs. Everyone who raises chickens will encounter a weird egg at one time or another. Lately I have had one girl laying an egg with a membrane outside over the egg. I have had an egg inside an egg, fart eggs, lash egg and a few more odd ones over the years.

http://www.browneggblueegg.com/Article/WeirdEggs/WeirdEggs.html
http://thefrugalchicken.com/abnormal-chicken-eggs/
http://www.the-chicken-chick.com/2012/01/how-hen-makes-egg-egg-oddities.html

Any ideas what is going on here???

 

[SmColorInDaPan]

Haven't posted here in a while. Found a HUGE egg this morning. R hand side is the Usual.
L Hand side is what i found this morning. Granted she's laid larger eggs, kitty Corner from each other,
but HEAVEN'S SAKE! Makes me HURT

just looking at it! These hens are pushing 2 years old ( I think), RIR.