I got the first egg....if you want to call it an egg. I know its for real this time because you couldn't buy this egg in the store. It doesn't have a shell. That's right folks, no shell. For a first time chicken mommy (that's me) this was an interesting sight. If it hadn't been for Joe telling me about seeing eggs like this before, I probably would have been shocked. It feels like those fake breasts you can buy at Victoria Secret. Soft and squishy. Apparently not too uncommon in the chicken world if your chicken is lacking in calcium. There is calcium in their food, but they are not eating that much of it since its hot. They also fill up on stuff outside since they run around in the yard. So I am off to the feed store to get some oyster shells. We girls need our calcium.
Try to imagine if things were different and we laid eggs with babies in them. We'd lay about an eight pound egg and then have to lay on it for a few weeks. Sarah would be a good brooder because she likes to lay around. Imagine the size of the opening that an eight pound egg would have to come out of. Ouch!!!!!
5 comments:
That egg is freaky looking! Maybe Sugar left it behind for you:)
Yum I cant wait to eat that slimy unborn baby chicken embryo.
Listen Mr. Booty I need to give you a birds and bees lecture. The yolk is just a yolk until some horny, looking to get laid rooster sticks his little pecker (ha pecker) into whereever it is that roosters stick it and then it becomes an embryo. I don't have a rooster so its just a slimy yolk. Come on over tomorrow for breakfast.
Eeeeew.
You should see the egg today. It's all shriveled and sucked in. I probably should throw it away, but I am so Proud!
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