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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: Izzy on May 26, 2015, 05:23:20 pm

Title: Wrinkled big egg
Post by: Izzy on May 26, 2015, 05:23:20 pm
wow!
Title: Re: Wrinkled big egg
Post by: AndynJ on May 26, 2015, 06:15:57 pm
We were once told this happens when a hen cannot control the pelvic muscles and that if it continues then she's on her last legs.
Would be interesting to find out if that's actually true.
Title: Re: Wrinkled big egg
Post by: Izzy on May 26, 2015, 06:20:12 pm
Well I hope not. We have had these POL girls about 2 months. Mixed hybrids
Title: Re: Wrinkled big egg
Post by: Thyme on May 26, 2015, 06:31:41 pm
Incubate it and see if you get a dinosaur.
Title: Re: Wrinkled big egg
Post by: AndynJ on May 26, 2015, 06:59:47 pm
Incubate it and see if you get a dinosaur.
:roflanim: :roflanim: :roflanim: :roflanim: :roflanim: :roflanim: :roflanim:
Title: Re: Wrinkled big egg
Post by: doganjo on May 26, 2015, 07:06:28 pm
One of mine lays a wrinkled egg every day, and has done for about three years i think  - normal sized though.  I don't know which one it is and they are mixed ages from 2 years to 7 years.  8 eggs a day from 9 oldies isn't bad.  :innocent:
Title: Re: Wrinkled big egg
Post by: Kimbo on May 26, 2015, 08:34:10 pm
we don't get wrinkled eggs but every 5 weeks or so we do get a massive one like yours...also from a hybrid but not sure which one. Then next day all back to normal for another 5 weeks! sometimes the mega-egg is a double yolker but not always. Im not seeing any signs of my mega-egg-layer popping her clogs yet!
Title: Re: Wrinkled big egg
Post by: bumpkins on May 26, 2015, 09:36:54 pm
That will have made her eyes water a bit......... :relief:  :o
Title: Re: Wrinkled big egg
Post by: Caroline1 on May 26, 2015, 09:46:40 pm
I get some of these every couple of weeks mine have been laying them for years