I had remembered when I was living with my boyfriend's parents as a teenager finding this same phenomenon in their coop one day. Over the years I had wondered if I had imagined it...or dreampt it. Guess not! Bag of egg is real!!!!!
The 'shell' looked like a deflated balloon after we had emptied it. *After a Google search, I found that it can be a symptom of an immature 'shell gland' (what the hell is that??) or a host of more serious problems....We'll go with immaturity! (I seriously doubt it is deficiency of any kind. Everyone else is fine and I have taken measures to ensure that everyone is nutritionally 'satisfied' previously.....
Also, I found a site that give instructions to MAKE a naked egg! I think we'll be trying that out next!
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Your blog is fun and interesting. This egg find and the explanation was fascinating. Thanks for sharing.
My sister and I did that "naked egg" thing when we were kids. It was fun and kinda yucky!
we fed our chickens bits of shell.. it sounds weird... but the *bone* helped to harden the shells .. it was finely ground and we just added a handful in with their food...
and we got much less shell-less eggs..
and weirdo eggs.
although a good weirdo egg can be fun.
THis can also be a symptom of your husband dropping the henhouse on your hen....she did survive and 2 weeks started laying again.
Rachel
New Zealand
How neat is that?!
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