I know, I know..what a title! The Fun girls were supposed to be the next topic but since they have not arrived yet (and this is entirely my fault) I thought I would cover a new topic..weird eggs.
My hens as you know began laying in mid August and so for the first month I was getting a steady supply of eggs both medium and small, brown and beige and maybe a little pink one, a gift from the Aracana's. But..late last week I was gathering the eggs when I saw an egg in the middle of the coop, not in the nest box. When I reached in to retrieve it, it POPPED! Just like a little egg water balloon! So, off I went to google EGG WITH NO SHELL. Turns out this is a normal occurrence with a hens reproductive cycle and it just missed the shell part. A few days later I found TWO of the largest and longest eggs to date. Who laid these? Well who knows but after mentioning this to my friend Marvin he said in his famous drawl..."Them's called Screamers!"
I saved these two large eggs for a few days and showed them to anyone who came within 5 feet of the house (UPS Lady, Fed Ex Man, friend who walks her dog by the house) and I even took them to work in a cooled lunch box to show off.
Sunday I finally boiled them to make my Sunday egg salad and low and behold I had a double yolk!
Since my girls are special I think I will request one that is like those Russian stack dolls! An egg within an egg!
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