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This is a community for people who keep chickens in their back yard. This includes pets, layers, and meaties at levels that are sub-industrial. Family farms and homesteads are included.
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The Fediverse is small. There probably aren't enough people here to make up a community for every type of bird that someone might keep so for now, everyone is welcome. Bring us your ducks and geese, turkeys and quail, Guineas and Peacocks, emus and parrots. The community will be focused on chickens but until there are enough of each bird community for their own community they will find care and comfort here.
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There may be discussions of animal processing. This is part of chicken keeping. If you don't like it leave and block the community.
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RULES:
All Lemmy.ca rules apply here.
Everyone (see rules 4 and 98) is welcome.
If you've seen a question 100 times answer it the 101st time or ignore it. Even better, write a complete, detailed answer and suggest that the mod(s) pin it to the community.
There will be ZERO tolerance for shaming, brigading, harassment, or other nonsense of those who keep and process chickens. You will be permanently banned the first time.
No, it's not a calcium deficiency. Wrinkled eggs are the result of insufficient or insufficiently viscous albumen. Tiny eggs and missing shells are misfires. They happen.
If you post a picture that includes a dead animal or blood mark it NSFW. We're not going to tolerate the militant anti-hunting and anti-farming bullshit here but we're also not going to tolerate people rubbing their hunting and harvesting in people's faces. See rule 98. If you post blood, gore, or dead animals and don't mark it NSFW it will be removed and you might be banned.
[Did you actually think there were 98 rules?]
If you present something as fact and are asked to provide proof or a source provide proof or a source. Proof must be from a reliable source. If you fail to provide proof or a source your post or comment may be removed.
Don't be a dick. Yes, this is a catch-all rule.
The mod(s) have the final say.
Has anyone had a whiteish mass in their egg before? I looked online and some people said it's intestinal lining some said ovary parts. Not sure, but it looks too big to be the white strandy stuff.
It actually looks like chiCken fetus to me. The unformed eye in the head blob maybe. Happened once to me also. They are eggs after all, and some get past quality control
I don't have a rooster...
Well this may be the second coming..
Got a manger?
I got a run with a nice spot of hay lol.
Well that makes it more interesting
In case any else is looking here's another picture before it went down the drain.
This needs a NSFW rating. LOL
Lol quality control implies those chicken farms even have quality to begin with. It's literally night and day between farm fresh eggs and those weird hardly yellow watery things they claim are eggs from grocery stores.
Happens every so often. Eggs are eggs.
Makes sense, but what is it? Do we just... Let it go and carry on? Nothing to see here? Lol
I wouldn't use it in a cake.
Too late
Nice cronch?
Makes sense, but what is it?
Embryo
Do we just… Let it go and carry on? Nothing to see here? Lol
What else you gunna do?
You can see if an egg is growing into a chicken in future by shining a bright light through it in a dark room/box. You will be able to see the veins growing, or else just a blank yolk. There are pictorial guides on tinternet.
Well I don't have a rooster... Can an egg become spontaneously fertilized?
You killed Chicken Jesus
if this is farm fresh, it might be a fetus. i raised chickens so I've seen this before.. there's quite a few streaks of blood in the white as well, suggesting it might be fertilized.. you said you didn't have a rooster but without that knowledge I would have been certain of it. do you have a neighbor with free range chickens who might have a rooster?
No. My chickens stick to their run as well so a rooster can't have broken in. That's so bizarre.
A rooster in disguise?
I don't have backyard birds, city slicker I am. I've occasionally seen something like this in store bought eggs. I've never seen it up this close though and this looks a little big and not as white. I kind of thought it was something normal. Looking it up, could it be chalazae?
I don't think so, maybe? It's a little too big to be chalazae I think.
How did it taste?
I'll ask the garbage disposal.
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