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[-] [email protected] 46 points 6 months ago

I bet there’s an egg in the egg

[-] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago

Does that happen? I've heard of double yolks but not nested eggs. This is our first year with the girls so first I'm seeing this.

I did get an egg with no shell once, just the thin membrane. Didn't take a picture tho.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago
[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

That yolk looks hard

[-] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago

It can happen sometimes. Also if they got a weak/no shell then u should mix some eggshell in their food or that additive stuff that's basically just small mineral rich rocks to help em get enough to make a proper shell.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago

If feeding eggshells, it's best to cook them in the oven a bit and then grinding them with a mortor. 250f for 10 mins should do it.

Oyster shells work well if you can get em. Other bivalves can work too but oyster is easier for the chickens to crack apart. You just want to bake it at like 250F for 10 mins

Here's a few other methods. https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/feeding-your-chickens-oyster-shells.77372/

[-] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago

Use a stronger egg. Put water in it. Put an egg in it. Have a baby on land, in the egg, in the egg. Baby in the water, on land, in the egg, in water, in the egg.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

We could make a religion out of this

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I'm racking my brain trying to remember what that's from. Was it an Oversimplified video?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Seriously, I bet it's a double yolk though.

[-] [email protected] 31 points 6 months ago

Yo, that's like $700.00 worth of eggs right there.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Checkmate tariffs.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago
[-] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago

Is your chicken's name Sheila by any chance?

[-] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago

You can identify which it was by checking which hen is walking with a limp today (mostly untrue, although they can have prolapses).

[-] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I have one particular chicken that does this pretty regularly. Long and kind of skinny, often with an odd texture on the end, sometimes with a weird constriction in the middle.

Also, you inspired me to post a pic of a tiny egg I got last week : https://lemmy.world/post/24677253

This is from a full grown 2.5 year old chicken that typically lays "normal" eggs... not sure why she laid one tiny one randomly.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Did I start a thing? Is this going to be Lemmy's version of the safe?

[-] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

This is such an upgrade. Let the torrent of wonky egg posts carry me away.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Not as long as you deliver.

That's a double yolk at least. Maybe even a triple if that's possible.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Oh I never delivered. It was a double, and she had another double last week.

Had another girl that laid a tiny egg. Like a little bigger than a ping-pong ball. Barely had any yolk at all.

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I support it!

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago

We’ve all been there…

[-] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago

I wonder if it’s a double.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

I think I would've been OK if the girth matches the length but......why is it just lonk

[-] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

Eggshells are a little softer before they come out. Poor dear had to squeeze extra contents through her same cloaca.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Cloaca so tight it gives long eggs

[-] CuriousKrypto 2 points 6 months ago

That's it. That's enough internet for the day.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

That's a raptor egg. Somehow uhh... Life finds a way

[-] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Probably twins or triplets or so

[-] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Bet it is the only bad one lol

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Must have felt that one coming out!

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Must have been laid by a big cock.

I'll show myself out.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

So you sell them and buy a house?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

All I got were three lousy magic beans.

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

It's frightening.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Is one of your chickens deflated today? Also, do they make epidurals for fowl?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

A rooster sits on the peak of a roof that is running north to south the wind is blowing easy to west which direction does the egg roll?

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