Possibly the daftest ever question!!??

[di]

Feel a little bit embarrassed asking this,but here goes anyway!

If a chook eats something it shouldn't...ie a piece of frayed tarp that I must have missed picking up from the run...is there any chance the whole thing could get into one of their eggs?I assumed not,that their digestion/egg making etc means just the nutrients,but tonight I cooked dippy eggs & one of them cracked & had a piece of frayed tarp on it.I guess it's totally possible that it got there somehow else....cos we've got loads of frayed tarp in our kitchen,but it seems it was in the egg!!!
I know I should have been more careful in making sure it wasn't there for them to eat for other reasons...choking/impacted crop etc,but the last thing I thought was that it might find it's way into an egg!!!????...am now in panic that we may have passed on eggs to friends with pieces of "stuff" in them!!!!

If it is a dim question,please just humour me!!!

[RedThorn]

I would say hopefully not or OH's bump could end up with chocolate and crisps all over it when she sprogs!

[pdblake]

...is there any chance the whole thing could get into one of their eggs?

How do you think they make Kinder Surprise?

They have a massive battery farm in Taiwan where they feed the chickens nothing but chocolate, milk and small plastic toys.

[Bramble-Poultry]

Ooooo - I want one of those type of farms - I will breed kinder chickens!!!

[rustylady]

Don't worry Di, I really think most people will check their eggs and green tarp isn't exactly poisonous!! Lord knows whether it was in the egg or on the egg, but I've found far worse things in supermarket produce.

[pdblake]

Yeah, but how ethical is battery chocolate. I can just see it now "Hugh's Chocolate Farm".

[Bramble-Poultry]

oh no - bramble free range chocolate eggs

Di I would sugest it was on the egg and it got in inadvertantly

[petal]

I reckon it might have a sore bum when the tarp comes out.....

[di]

I swear it wasn't on the egg...I had to do the float test to make sure it was fresh...managed to get a bit of a backlog due to school hols & not seeing mums that usually buy excess.
When I took it out of the pan,some of the white had oozed out & attatched to it was a thread of frayed tarp,about 4 inches long!

[RichmondHens]

I'm not sure how it got there, but I can't believe it was in the egg! An egg starts its life in the ovary, and travels down the "tubes" picking up layers as it goes along, laying down the shell and pigment as its final act. If you ever have the opportunity to cut open a (dead) laying hen you will see the eggs in their various stages from little tiny ones to the finished article ready to lay. I remember my father years ago taking an egg from inside a (freshly) dead hen and using it for cooking.

Food will obviously follow the digestive route, and the waste passed out. The piece of tarp would come out this way, assuming it can get processed en route.

Don't worry, your friends will not be eating tarp in their fry ups!

[Jardiniere]

this thread made me think of my chickens who have twice now caught, killed and eaten small snakes...as if they were spaghetti......i was very trepidatious (is that a word?) over the few days after seeing them do this, that a snake diet would effect their eggs.....

[Nicos]

Oh well....whatever eh?????....by the time it was in the egg the chooks digestive tract will have neutralised anything passing through!!!...interesting though!!!!
Makes a change tis you and not me eh?????

[di]

Well you'd been gone so long Nicos...just keeping your seat warm!
Seriously though,as uncredible as it sounds,the piece of tarp thread wasn't on the egg when it went in the pan...I really can't remember hunting a piece down to pop in the pan of water,yet when the egg was done,there it was almost encased in the oozed out white!???

BTW...not sure whether Daisy or Ash got it,but neither made any complaints when eating!

[Hilary B]

I could (just about) believe that something could get embedded in the shell from the digestive system, but I am sure nothing can get any further 'in' the egg, and I reckon even 'under the shell' is EXTREMELY unlikely!

[HayleyB]

Ok, Ok, so how do we start going about making these chocolate eggs then? How long until Easter?????????????