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What Causes Deformed Chicken Eggs and Other Egg Abnormalities?
May 12, 2022 · · Eggs & Meat

Egg abnormalities and deformed chicken eggs occur with almost every breed of hen at some point in her egg laying career. Eggs laid by non-commercially bred hens vary considerably in size, shape, and color.

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Weird Things Found In Eggs
March 10, 2022 · · Eggs & Meat

Weird things found in eggs are generally uncommon, but it does happen. Hens lay weird eggs sometimes, but most oddities are external.

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How a Chicken Lays an Egg Inside of an Egg
March 7, 2022 · · Eggs & Meat

Occasionally, a hen will lay an egg inside of an egg, a phenomenon called counter-peristalsis contraction, and it occurs while the hen is forming an egg in her oviduct.

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Spontaneous Sex Reversal – Is That My Hen Crowing?!
June 21, 2021 · · Feed & Health

Have you heard a hen crowing when you know you don’t keep roosters? Jeff Goldblum’s groovy scientist character in the 1993 blockbuster, “Jurassic Park,” comments that “life finds a way” and that somehow the all-female population of cloned dinosaurs would reproduce.

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Alternatives to Culling Chickens

My eight-year-old hen still manages to pop out a handful of eggs a year, but they’re usually wrinkled and a bit distorted with thin shells.

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How Do Chickens Lay Eggs?

“I can’t buy your eggs anymore,” was the astonishing announcement made by a college student who had been one of my best customers. I had to know what was going on.

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Ask the Expert: Egg-Bound Chickens and Other Laying Issues

Do you have questions about egg-bound chickens and other laying issues? Look inside for questions and answers from other poultry owners.

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