I just been out to the garden as a lot of clucking announced an egg. The egg was in the corner of the henhouse, not the nest box, and I didn't see who was clucking by the time I got out there (I'm very slow and a bit shakey still)
Anyhoo, I think we've just had our first soft-shelled egg. It wasn't just the egg contents in a membrane and it didn't quite have a shell. What it does look like is one of those silly putty eggs that kids have. All rubbery but pale brown, like it was nearly shelled but not quite. There was also a lot of clear rubbery mucus...looked like silicone gel. Yucky, but quite interesting too.
I'm wondering if it was Buffy as we haven't had an egg for two days from her, but she was in the nestbox a few times. Or, it could be a first egg from one of the girls who hadn't started laying yet.
Guess I will need to spend my day in the garden chook watching again
Well, someone has do it........
Jules
Anyhoo, I think we've just had our first soft-shelled egg. It wasn't just the egg contents in a membrane and it didn't quite have a shell. What it does look like is one of those silly putty eggs that kids have. All rubbery but pale brown, like it was nearly shelled but not quite. There was also a lot of clear rubbery mucus...looked like silicone gel. Yucky, but quite interesting too.
I'm wondering if it was Buffy as we haven't had an egg for two days from her, but she was in the nestbox a few times. Or, it could be a first egg from one of the girls who hadn't started laying yet.
Guess I will need to spend my day in the garden chook watching again
Well, someone has do it........
Jules
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