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[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

Checkmate tariffs.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 days ago

Is your chicken's name Sheila by any chance?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

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] 8 points 6 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days 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 6 days ago

I support it!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

I used to go to this bar and grill that had soft boiled quail eggs wrapped in bacon on a skewer. Looked about that size, maybe even smaller. Now I’m hungry.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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 days ago (1 children)

Cloaca so tight it gives long eggs

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Cloacussy takes another victim.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Must have been laid by a big cock.

I'll show myself out.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

So you sell them and buy a house?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

All I got were three lousy magic beans.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Feed them to the Chicken who laid the giant egg!

It will then grow over night and you can ride your Monster Chicken into battle next morning!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

It's frightening.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago
[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I bet there’s an egg in the egg

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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 days ago (1 children)

We could make a religion out of this

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

That yolk looks hard

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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] 17 points 6 days 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] 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week 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] 16 points 1 week ago

We’ve all been there…

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

I wonder if it’s a double.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

When you're the tallest person in the classroom

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Probably twins or triplets or so

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