Having said that – for both of you if it is a one time occurrence, I wouldn’t give it a second thought and simply let it be as one of those things. Press gently but firmly on her abdomen with your other hand to try to move the egg toward the vent. If you find that your hen becomes egg bound, you’ll need to help her pass the egg.Ĭoat your fingers with mineral oil or petroleum jelly and gently reach inside her vent.Ĭoat as much of the vent as you can with the lubricant as well as any portion of the egg that you can reach. The term “egg bound” simply means that the hen is having a hard time laying the egg. The difference being that hens can become egg bound and this is a situation that needs to be addressed. I would agree with you that this has the makings of more than one egg. Larry, your situation is not dissimilar to Vance’s in that, sometimes things just don’t work quite right.
#Misshapen chicken eggs cracked
I’d be interested to know if you cracked it open what was inside. The end result is a tiny egg with no yolk or maybe a very small yolk.
It goes through the process of forming just as every other egg does.
#Misshapen chicken eggs full
However, it is still released as a full sized yolk would be. It seems that I read that occasionally, the ovum doesn’t fully develop into a yolk.
For some reason, we never did crack it open to see what was inside.
We thought it was so neat that we kept it for months. Vance, we had a small egg like yours once and only once. Seriously though, sometimes the “conveyor belt” just gets off track. My answer to both of you is, “I don’t know.”Īren’t you glad you subscribe when you get sage wisdom like that? Thanks so much to Vance & Larry for the questions and pictures. Thank you so much ” ~ Larry Tinsley, Lakeland Fla Since this was laid all other eggs are normal except for one that was extremely oval shaped.
#Misshapen chicken eggs plus
I think this is an egg plus a second plus an egg sac all at one time. This ensures that the egg is used sooner and minimizes the chances of breakage during the additional steps involved in selling an intact egg to consumers.Hope you will know. However, Anderson said, larger bumps, say big enough to catch your thumbnail, are surrounded by weaker portions of the shell, making the egg more fragile.Īn egg with larger bumps isn’t a bad egg, so to speak, but it is deemed lower quality and often directed to factories that crack open eggs and process them for use in other foods. In the case pictured above, they’re mainly a cosmetic imperfection. The bumps don’t signal that anything is wrong with the rest of the egg. “On that particular day,” explained Kenneth Anderson, a poultry extension specialist at North Carolina State University, the chicken’s uterus “was having a bad day, and it excreted a little extra calcium carbonate crystals onto the large end of the egg.” Normally, the shell forms a relatively smooth exterior, but, well, no one’s perfect all the time. Why is it OK to eat an egg with a bumpy shell?Įggshells are mostly made from calcium carbonate crystals, the same stuff you might find in chalk and sea shells. Large deposits might make the shell more likely to crack if it’s jostled, but as long as the shell is intact, the yolk and white inside are just fine. What you see: Hard, sand-like bumps or a gritty texture on your egg’s shell.Įat or toss: The egg is fine.
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