Lynnette Henderson
Shell-Less Egg
This is something folks normally do not see, unless they have egg-laying chickens.
Every once in a while we get an egg with a membrane, but without a shell. It feels like a soft water balloon. The membrane was placed on the yolk and white, but it somehow slipped past the "shell mechanism" and the shell wasn't deposited.
This particular egg was laid on the coop floor just before the chickens went to roost, and froze overnight. We allowed it to thaw, and this is what we got. The white was watery and the yolk remained encased in the membrane. When broken open, the thawed yolk resisited being blended (as for scrambled eggs). We have seen the chickens eat the few shell less eggs thus far, so this egg became chicken food.
Shell-Less Egg
This is something folks normally do not see, unless they have egg-laying chickens.
Every once in a while we get an egg with a membrane, but without a shell. It feels like a soft water balloon. The membrane was placed on the yolk and white, but it somehow slipped past the "shell mechanism" and the shell wasn't deposited.
This particular egg was laid on the coop floor just before the chickens went to roost, and froze overnight. We allowed it to thaw, and this is what we got. The white was watery and the yolk remained encased in the membrane. When broken open, the thawed yolk resisited being blended (as for scrambled eggs). We have seen the chickens eat the few shell less eggs thus far, so this egg became chicken food.