#shell-less egg

[continent-of-wild-endeavor]

I went to count chickens & do final egg check around dusk, and it's been rainy all day so it was especially dim. So I'm putting my hands in nest boxes, and I feel. Not. Eggshell. Where it sure looked like Egg should be.

It turned out to be one of those shell-less eggs, just a hiccup in a hen's egg-construction system, something that happens sometimes. But that was unsettling to put my hand on, when I expected a very different feeling.

[jensownzoo]

The two pullets who were laying are starting to taper off as expected as we approach winter. Haven't gotten any eggs for a few days and today there was this one:

Yeah, she missed a step. Got the insides and the membranes, got the final color coat, forgot the shell...

[gemwel]

Sometimes your chickens give you something weird, like this shell-less egg. The hen that laid it usually has green-shelled eggs.