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mwncigirl

  • Joined Sep 2011
Strange marking on egg
« on: February 26, 2013, 10:37:32 am »
One of our chooks has laid an egg with a very strange cross marking on. It looks like its been done with  machine, but all our chooks are free range and I just can't work out how its happened. Any ideas??
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Fleecewife

  • Joined May 2010
    • South Lanarkshire
    • ScotHebs
Re: Strange marking on egg
« Reply #1 on: February 26, 2013, 11:15:21 am »
Presumably it landed on something with that mark on when it was first laid.  Anything which touches the wet shell then dries will leave its mark.  Caged birds sometimes leave mesh shapes on the shells if the eggs land touching the mesh.   What do you line your nesting boxes with?
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nic99

  • Joined Jul 2011
Re: Strange marking on egg
« Reply #2 on: February 26, 2013, 11:25:48 am »
Did it sit on the head of a screw perhaps?
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mwncigirl

  • Joined Sep 2011
Re: Strange marking on egg
« Reply #3 on: February 26, 2013, 05:26:25 pm »
The collected it from the nestbox, full of fresh sawdust. It wasn't sitting on anything obvious to make the mark. Bit large for the head of a screw.
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suziequeue

  • Joined Feb 2010
    • Llanidloes; Powys
Re: Strange marking on egg
« Reply #4 on: February 26, 2013, 07:14:54 pm »
Send a picture of it to the Sunday Sport.


Hard boil the egg and cut it in half. I'll bet you any money that the yolk I'll look like Marylin Munroe, Elvis Presley or Jesus. Take photo and send to Sunday Sport.


:-)))
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funkyfish

  • Joined Nov 2011
    • Devon
Re: Strange marking on egg
« Reply #5 on: February 26, 2013, 07:45:53 pm »
 ;D
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zarzar

  • Joined Jul 2012
    • kent
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Re: Strange marking on egg
« Reply #6 on: February 26, 2013, 08:04:03 pm »
 ;D
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ZaktheLad

  • Joined Aug 2012
    • Thornbury, Nr Bristol
Re: Strange marking on egg
« Reply #7 on: February 26, 2013, 08:06:47 pm »
Looks like something out of the Eggsfactor to me ...
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Susannah

  • Joined Sep 2012
    • Pencaitland
Re: Strange marking on egg
« Reply #8 on: February 27, 2013, 09:52:25 am »
I think I would try hatching it!
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goosepimple

  • Joined May 2010
    • nr Lauder, Scottish Borders
Re: Strange marking on egg
« Reply #9 on: February 27, 2013, 12:08:47 pm »
Actually the top whiteish marks look like eyes and a nose and the cross things a mouth, is there someone in there shouting for help?  Is it like the Turin shroud?  Easter coming up etc...?
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scruffbag

  • Joined Nov 2012
Re: Strange marking on egg
« Reply #10 on: March 03, 2013, 07:35:17 pm »
what the holy egg!
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mwncigirl

  • Joined Sep 2011
Re: Strange marking on egg
« Reply #11 on: March 03, 2013, 07:44:50 pm »
Thanks for your help everyone!  :excited:
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goosepimple

  • Joined May 2010
    • nr Lauder, Scottish Borders
Re: Strange marking on egg
« Reply #12 on: March 04, 2013, 10:28:52 am »
Hang on a minute!  You can't leave it there!  What happened when you opened it?
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mwncigirl

  • Joined Sep 2011
Re: Strange marking on egg
« Reply #13 on: March 04, 2013, 05:43:39 pm »
Unfortunately it got accidentally sold at the gate, so we will never know!!  ;D
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Ina

  • Joined Feb 2012
    • South Aberdeenshire
Re: Strange marking on egg
« Reply #14 on: March 04, 2013, 05:56:35 pm »
Quote from: mwncigirl on March 04, 2013, 05:43:39 pm
Unfortunately it got accidentally sold at the gate, so we will never know!!  ;D

Damn - it would have made the perfect Easter egg - ready decorated! Could have made a fortune with that!  ;)
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