something to eggspect when you have chickens

[Chickie'sMomaInNH]

ah, those are called rubber eggs! usually when i find those they've already been broken and nearly gobbled up by everyone in the coop. one of my roos was paired up with a girl that about every week during the hot summer would lay one of those. i found it interesting that he was following her around one day when he saw she was about to lay an egg, he was right there waiting to see if it was going to be one. as soon as it would land he would be right there to try and smash it so he could get all the glory. if it was solid he would give it a couple of pecks and then walk away. one day the hen laid one of these eggs but the 'rubber' wasn't as thin and i grabbed it out of the pen to show my dh. it was like a slightly delicate bouncy ball!

 

[so lucky]

My girl who lays the thin shelled eggs sometimes lays one that is really fragile, kind of like a thin coating of ice. Not realizing how fragile one was the other day, I put the eggs in my coat pocket while I dealt with the door. My thumb went through the egg when I tried to take them out of my pocket. Big mess!
I found an intact robin's egg today in my flower bed. I have a collection of wild bird eggs that are found like that. One is a quail egg that I found in a bale of straw! Still whole, with just a tiny hole on one end. I have 5 tiny wren eggs from a nest where the mama got hit by a car. Those are very fragile. The small eggs do eventually dry out, without having to do anything to them.

 

[baymule]

I got those chicken f-rt eggs, but they were double yolkers! I guess my pullets didn't know they were supposed to be all whites!

 

[canesisters]

I haven't gotten a rubber egg yet, but I've gotten these weirdos just last week.
The one on the left feels hollow and has that crazy little tail. The next one has a little dent, like the crook of a finger. The dark one is a typical egg from Candy the ee, and the far right is a whopper double-yolk from one of the jersey girls.

 

[Ridgerunner]

That is a collection. Sure makes store bought eggs boring, doesn't it.

 

[so lucky]

That is a collection. Sure makes store bought eggs boring, doesn't it.

In several ways!

 

[vfem]

We did have a triple yolk duck egg last week... I gotta find the picture!

 

[vfem]

Here it is....

 

[so lucky]

Wow!!!

 

[MontyJ]

Thanks for the heads up on the egg thing folks! The first time I would have found a milk dud in the nest I would have been on here asking about it. But this leads me to another question...will a double yolk egg hatch twins? Or is it doomed? I don't have any roosters now, so I'm just curious.