Freaky eggs

[911 Rod]

We get fresh farm eggs delivered and this week they sent us these freaky looking eggs.
Anyone ever seen this? I'm almost waiting for a chick to break through!

[masraum]

Interesting
https://poultrykeeper.com/egg-problems/wrinkled-egg-shells/

https://talkinghens.com.au/whats-going-on-with-your-eggs/

https://backyardpoultry.iamcountryside.com/eggs-meat/abnormal-chicken-eggs/

[stevej37]

I surely wouldn't crack that thing open inside the house.

Sure looks like the rooster raided the hen house.
If so...it's going to stink!

[911 Rod]

Originally Posted by masraum

Interesting
https://poultrykeeper.com/egg-problems/wrinkled-egg-shells/

https://talkinghens.com.au/whats-going-on-with-your-eggs/

https://backyardpoultry.iamcountryside.com/eggs-meat/abnormal-chicken-eggs/

Interesting indeed. Although safe to eat, we should not be getting them like this when we pay top dollar for fresh eggs.

[Shaun @ Tru6]

Just make sure you don't pull the pin.

[Baz]

Originally Posted by Shaun @ Tru6

Just make sure you don't pull the pin.

LOL.....yes......see:

https://forums.pelicanparts.com/off-topic-discussions/1140412-so-you-find-hand-grenade.html

[masraum]

Originally Posted by stevej37

I surely wouldn't crack that thing open inside the house.

Sure looks like the rooster raided the hen house.
If so...it's going to stink!

I think I've only experience 1 rotten egg in my life, maybe 2, but I only remember 1.

We lived on a military base in Japan and got our eggs at the commissary. I think they were shipped from the US, so probably quite old by the time we got them. It was in the late 70s, and my mom was baking something with me helping at 8 or 9 yo. I cracked an egg into a bowl or something and it smelled.

Funny thing, when we went to the Amazon back about 8-10 years ago, we spent 3 weeks on the river. We had what must have been 150-200 eggs on the boat sitting out unrefrigerated the entire time. I think the deal is that when an egg is laid, there's a mucous that coats the egg to seal the shell and keep the bad stuff out. In that situation you don't have to refrigerate eggs. In the US, the FDA requires eggs to have that mucous coating washed off, so it is better/safer if the eggs are refrigerated.

I think there has been a discussion about eggs and refrigeration here on the board at least once before (what hasn't been discussed at least once before on the board, LOL).

[stevej37]

I was meaning a fertilized egg.
It's not uncommon to crack an egg and an embryo roll out....if the rooster has had access.

[Jolly Amaranto]

I provide nesting boxes for wild black bellied whistling ducks in my back yard. In one of the boxes this year, four different hens were laying eggs (called egg dumping). One mating pair ended up sitting on the lot and 38 ducklings hatched. All the ducklings bonded to that pair and the big family moseyed off to the local pond.


A few years ago there were only two hens worth of eggs and 21 hatched.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by Jolly Amaranto

I provide nesting boxes for wild black bellied whistling ducks in my back yard. In one of the boxes this year, four different hens were laying eggs (called egg dumping). One mating pair ended up sitting on the lot and 38 ducklings hatched. All the ducklings bonded to that pair and the big family moseyed off to the local pond.

A few years ago there were only two hens worth of eggs and 21 hatched.

Very cool.

WHen I was a kid, my grandfather and I used to go to a park a few miles from his home. The park had a small lake, and was often/usually frequented by lots of ducks including a bunch of muscovy ducks. We'd often take bread, and I'd feed the ducks little pieces of bread. It was not unusual for there to be ducks wandering around with large numbers of ducklings in tow.

[wdfifteen]

Probably from old hens. When our hens aged out this winter they started laying strange eggs, but nothing as extreme as that. They looked like a couple of the lighter colored, somewhat bumpy eggs in the carton in your picture. Shells were often thin or non-existent. Some eggs had the yolk stuck to the shell and the white was like water. For the last couple of months we had them I started breaking the eggs in a glass bowl to get a look at them before I committed them to the skillet. I would at least adopt that practice if you are getting eggs like the three questionable ones I see.
We're not sure how old they were, probably 5 or 6.

[WPOZZZ]

Originally Posted by Jolly Amaranto

I provide nesting boxes for wild black bellied whistling ducks in my back yard. In one of the boxes this year, four different hens were laying eggs (called egg dumping). One mating pair ended up sitting on the lot and 38 ducklings hatched. All the ducklings bonded to that pair and the big family moseyed off to the local pond.


A few years ago there were only two hens worth of eggs and 21 hatched.

How do you make a nesting box? I can never find the eggs as my ducks lay them all over the place. My yardman says he finds them in the back yard.

[Jolly Amaranto]

Originally Posted by WPOZZZ

How do you make a nesting box? I can never find the eggs as my ducks lay them all over the place. My yardman says he finds them in the back yard.

The ducks have to be a "cavity nesting" species. IE a hole in a hollow tree works best. However these ducks take to a nesting box quite readily. They are a rather large species so a box made for wood ducks is too small. I make mine out of 6" cedar fence pickets butted together to make a 10" X 10" X 24" box. Here an adult and a duckling are looking out. The ducklings can't fly yet, they just tuck and roll and bounce a bit when they hit the ground.

[Steve Carlton]

Originally Posted by Jolly Amaranto

Imprinting. A wonderful feature of nature.

[WPOZZZ]

Originally Posted by Jolly Amaranto

The ducks have to be a "cavity nesting" species. IE a hole in a hollow tree works best. However these ducks take to a nesting box quite readily. They are a rather large species so a box made for wood ducks is too small. I make mine out of 6" cedar fence pickets butted together to make a 10" X 10" X 24" box. Here an adult and a duckling are looking out. The ducklings can't fly yet, they just tuck and roll and bounce a bit when they hit the ground.

Thanks. I have about 30 Mallards/Hawaiian ducks.

[Steve Carlton]

The title of this thread got me thinking of the freaky work of John Waters. This scene is so insane and funny...

[911 Rod]

Do you think we should return the freaky eggs?

[Steve Carlton]

I would. I saw this documentary about Peter Parker when he got bit by a spider. I wouldn't want to turn into some kind of giant chicken.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Jolly Amaranto

I provide nesting boxes for wild black bellied whistling ducks in my back yard. In one of the boxes this year, four different hens were laying eggs (called egg dumping). One mating pair ended up sitting on the lot and 38 ducklings hatched. All the ducklings bonded to that pair and the big family moseyed off to the local pond.


A few years ago there were only two hens worth of eggs and 21 hatched.

Several years ago when i still commuted to work, just as I got home and pulled into the garage I saw a mama duck quaking in our garden area. She was acting weird. I walked over to see if I could figure what was going on. She walked over to the storm drain and I heard a lot of cheep cheep cheep. Evidently she was walking her babies along and she hopped up over the storm drain opening, and all the babies just went down the drain and were trapped.

My wife arrived home a short time later as one neighbor lady showed up. The neighbor lady went home to get her husband, and I went to get my pick from the storage shed. I removed the manhole cover. Those are heavy! In TV and movies they bad guys lift them with one hand and escape from below. Yea, right. Anyway, I got the manhole cover off, and the neighbor dude climbed down.

We have a net to our Koi pond, so I handed him the net and a 5 gallon bucket. He gathered them all up, and handed the equipment to me, and climbed out. With all the people around mama duck have flown off. I don't know if she figured we had it handled, or we were going to eat the babies, whatever no mama duck.

I called the Wildlife rescue and they asked that we keep them safe and bring them to them in the morning. The neighbor lady said she would take them to her house and put them in the guest bathroom bathtub. She called all her grandkids and other kids to come see the ducklings.

The next morning they drove them down to the wildlife rescue, and the had a couple of pair of parents ducks, and they said the ducklings would blend right in, and be raised as wild ducks. They would all fly off when they grew up and go back to nature. The neighbor brought back my bucket and we all felt like good.

[Jolly Amaranto]

Last year, there was one pair of ducks sitting on a clutch when we had a record heat wave. Only a few ducklings managed to hatch. After those had bailed out and waddled off with the parents, I went to clean out the box and replace the wood shavings at the bottom. I was curious to see how far along if at all the unhatched eggs eggs got. I was breaking them to check out the contents. Some had partially developed embryos but one just popped and exploded foul (fowl) green goo all over me. I felt like Sam in THE LORD OF THE RINGS after he battled Shelob the giant spider and was covered in green spider blood.