Pro - Does anyone else's nest boxes get soaked in rain?

[Hen Fan]

Just found a really hideous thing inside the egg I just cracked. It looks like a crysalis or something. It is an inch long and a quarter of an inch wide and is bloody at one end. It is utterly revolting. Does anyone know what this is or have my hens been invaded by alien beings?

[Snowy]

That does sound strange! No ideas though, sorry. Do you have a picture, maybe that would help?

[Hen Fan]

Yes I've got a picture. How do I attach it? I'm a bit of a novice when it comes to posting stuff.

[Snowy]

If you upload it to an on line photo hosting programme such as Photobucket or Flickr, you can then just copy the link into your post, then it will appear.

[Hen Fan]

Oh thank you. Here it is....

 

I hope you are not easily shocked!!

 

[Hen Fan]

And the worst part is I had a friend round for lunch and was just making her an omelette. She's never going to want one of my eggs again!!

[Snowy]

Oh dear, I can imagine that would be a bit offputting!

Trouble is, because of supermarket eggs, we tend to expect every egg to be perfect, but the truth is they can sometimes contain unpleasant surprises. I suspect your 'pupa' (looks a bit like an alien doesn't it?) Is a lash that has been encased in the egg - a lump of fleshy material that hens sometimes produce, although usually they are passed alone rather than in the egg. To be on the safe side, I always crack eggs into a small jug before using them. And I dont eat many hard boiled eggs any more

[Ain't Nobody Here]

Yuck .

 

I agree, it must be a lash that would normally be laid on its own. Unfortunate that there was a witness otherwise you could have just binned it .

[Mrs_B]

Crikey - you can't miss that surprise can you Thanks for sharing!!

 

I have had the odd little bit in my eggs before, nothing's put me off if I can remove the offending item

 

Hope your friend still eats your eggs though, it would be a shame if she was put off completely. Though, my grandmother refuses to eat my hen's eggs because she 'knows' the chickens and finds it weird 'to eat their eggs' - so sometimes you can't change people's mind about food related things

 

x

[PoachedPlease]

Omg what if you did hard boil it??

 

Have you had a long look at the offending chicken, is she smirking?..it is Halloween after all

 

Xx

[merlina]

my older hens' eggs have often got bits of blood and/or 'stuff I don't want to look at too closely' in them

Nothing quite as 'alien' as yours tho!

Like Snowy, I've developed an aversion to hard boiled eggs these days

 

I cook any eggs like the above that I wouldn't eat and put them in the chooks' treat bowl. Some people think that's a bit weird, but I hate to waste stuff and the protein is good for them

[auntielizzie]

I don't think I'll be eating any more hard boiled eggs either now