What Egg-xactly is it?
Some of our chickens like to lay eggs in a feed trough in the sheep shed. When I went out to gather eggs, here is what I saw:
Okay, true confession time. The top egg I placed in there for comparison. It's a peafowl egg. Our peafowl are in a large aviary, so lay their eggs in there. Once in a while we find a chicken egg in the aviary, as our Golden Sebright's can slip through the openings in the wire at the bottom, but generally speaking, the chicken eggs and peafowl eggs aren't together.
Oh, and in case you're wondering what peafowl are - I know some people get confused at the term peafowl! Think peacocks. Only peafowl is the real name for those type of birds, peahens are the girls, peachicks are the young birds, and peacocks are the boys, and the boys only.
Anyway, back to the nest of eggs! In the middle are two chicken eggs. The white one on the left comes from a Sicilian Buttercup hen. The one on the right comes from a Buff Orpington hen.Now the bottom egg, I'm not sure egg-xactly what it is. With that odd shape, I believe it may have been a Polish Crescent Sliver Moon chicken.
Well, okay, maybe not. I do believe it came from our Polish Crested Silver Laced chicken however. I really don't know what happened that she laid this egg with such a strange shape. They usually look just like the other chicken eggs.
I guess she just wanted this one to be egg-stra special!
posted by Rural Writer @ 9:48 AM
3 Comments
3 Comments:
Interesting looking eggs!
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the neigbors hen laid eggs on my back deck so i put some hay there and she laid MORE now she is setting on them so i covered her with a small childs plastic piece of playground equipment shes out of the weather and was under the eaves of the house for the most part anyway. now shes enclosed with a small opening the size a small child could crawl in and out of. Since we are in eastern Tennessee its still quite cold at night like 32 degrees. Shes been setting on the eggs 2 days but we had had some really cold weather during the time she was laying the eggs ( aboutone egg a day) one cracked open and was leaking out and I removed it. Will the cold weather prevent her form being able to hatch out the eggs?
She may yet hatch out the eggs if she stays on them consistently to keep them warm! Sometimes they surprise you!!
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