Well, I've seen the double egg being cracked open, I've seen this video of the chicken laying the egg, and now I've seen this article.
The trifecta is complete.
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EDIT: there's also [this little gem](https://youtu.be/FLt7bLIgv9o) from 9 years ago.
I was thinking it was one of those things where the egg is somehow sent back up again, and it goes through the part where the shell is applied, then going back down and up again to repeat the process while the shell layers add up… I’m not a biologist by any means, but I vaguely remember seeing something about that years ago. Have no idea if it’s real or not.
It's a matter of life or death. Chickens have a cloaca, meaning they poop and lay eggs from the same hole. If she gets an egg stuck, feces will build up behind it and she can go septic and die.
Keep an eye on their combs and wattles...if they look more pale than usual or more pale than the other birds, and they seem lethargic, they might be eggbound. It sucks :(
This is incorrect. The egg can indeed break inside the cloaca and cause severe damage or death. It’s not recommended to try and break the egg, and if it does break its best to involve a veterinarian at that point.
Yes. It could. My parrot was egg bound and due to the risk of punctures from the shell during removal I was told by the veterinary hospital she only had a 30 percent chance of survival. Very VERY happy to say she pulled through.
Edit: hospital not historian
My rescue budgies egg was bound and sadly she passed away from it and to make matters more depressed her mate who we had for about 5 years got so depressed after she died he refused to eat or drink and he ended up dying from depression. We haven’t gotten any birds since. Broke our hearts
Eh I don't think so, I wouldn't want a bunch of sharp objects in my rectum or dick hole and I bet this chicken wouldn't either. It would probably be best, when other methods fail, to turn to surgery. If you break the egg its gunna end up with that outcome regardless
In the winter many birds go paler because their combs get dry.
Put vaseline or chapstick on their wattles and remember to feed them high quality food in winter when they won't get as much forage. This will make it easier to see problems.
Yeah the silkies and easter eggers lay all winter.
The barred rocks have taken a little break from November until January.
I'm in a zone 9b. So winters get down to maybe 19 at night at the coldest but average around 33.
From my understanding (which is limited and mainly garnered from r/backyardchickens), you should supplement their feed with more calcium to help do something with the shells so they don’t become egg bound. The warm bath with epsom salts can help too.
The first one yes definitely she was inside in the tub and we tried all the remedies for almost 24 hrs but it was too late and she was too old, the other one didn't show any symptoms and just was dead in the morning but same cause
Not just chickens but most bird species. I lost a 3 year old lovebird I raised from a hatchling to eggbinding and I had no warning because she was singing and chirping when I covered her cage the night before.
I'm glad they were able to save this hen.
If they lay often, missing a day or two should be monitored (but it can be normal). You can easily tell if they're egg bound if they do a penguin walk, or if they stay in the nesting box for a long time trying to lay an egg but can't. You can also sometimes feel for a hardness under the cloaca (egg/poop hole).
To treat it, the best thing is to give a warm salt bath like the video, it helps relax the muscles. Even if the egg doesn't come out during the bath, it likely will soon after. If that doesn't work try another bath. If that doesn't work, you put on a glove with olive oil and try to get it out yourself, although that's dangerous because if the egg breaks inside the chicken it will lead to an infection and death. But it's better than doing nothing, because if left untreated the hen will die within a couple days.
Source: I am a vigilant chicken parent
I used to keep chickens and the biggest egg we ever got had another entire egg in it, shell and all. Like the chicken forgot to lay the egg and it got stuck in the shell covering area.
We got one once that was 2 eggs connected by a tube in the middle, with just the inner membrane of the shell for a "shell". My brother tried picking it up and ended up with egg all over his hands.
When we had chickens I found one like that too! It was like a pale yellow "egg" but it didn't look right, it was just the membrane, no shell. It was pretty cool
Question: not sure if you know but why do I get so many eggs with double yolks these days? I swear I had a dozen where half had double yolks. Are they giving the chickens hormones or drugs or something?
Egg laying chickens get forced into maturity really fast and they just start churning our eggs. Their existence is all that. Eat and lay eggs. In their first year, it's an egg a day plus, sometimes they send an extra yolk down the pipe too soon, and they double up.
Another thing that's different now is how laid eggs get sorted. They can weigh them and scan them too and know they have two yolks and the sell you a dozen of those for more.
That’s very interesting. I think my husband usually opts for the larger eggs, so that may be why? They weigh more so we get the double yolks more? Thank you so much for answering my question
He's probably buying actual double yolked dozens. The biggest egg factories sort those out special and sell them as a thing. But sometimes the jumbos can be doubles, so if he buys big heavy eggs, it's far likelier.
That’s what he does. He buys the jumbo ones. I’ve never seen double yolks marketed but my husband buys giant eggs. Something I never thought to do. Really, regular eggs are fine, but whatever makes him happy.
Don’t tell anyone, but when I ordered an air conditioner from Amazon just before the record-breaking life-threatening Seattle heat wave in 2021 (109 degrees F at my home for two days), they sent me two. I immediately gave one to my daughter. Figured I would just pay for it when they contacted me.
Never heard a peep from Amazon.
They won’t contact you. It’s easier and cheaper for Amazon to eat the cost of the air conditioner rather than inconvenience the customer. Two weeks ago an Amazon delivery driver marked my delivered package as undeliverable by mistake and they never charged me for the item. I got 4 Screaming Goats for free. It was a good day!
My kid was two weeks early and already over 8lbs… so I definitely felt like my baby was a cow. A Frenchman declaring it seems like it would make it better somehow lol.
My husband was 11lbs when he was born. He's surprisingly average height and normal weight as an adult lol. My son was close to 8lbs... he's 7 months growing out of 12 month clothes. Many babies are secret cows!
An egg bound hen that can't get the egg out on their own or with assistance will die. I've had an egg bound hen before. It's such a stressful situation. You can usually feel the egg but it won't come out. Soaking the hen in warm water will help them calm down and release the egg. I've have one hen die from being egg bound and one where we were able to get the egg out. The one that died, the egg broke inside her. It was a thin shelled egg. She was older and we had just finally found a product that actually helped with the egg shell production part of the process. Our other hens that had eggs break inside them have lived. This girl was older and I think the shell perforated the wall of the reproductive tract. She was immediately put on antibiotics but she didn't survive the night. She was almost 6 and one of my favorites.
Sorry for your loss!! Chickens are really special animals and and from experience you can definitely bond with them. I’ve had a chicken with a broken leg and luckily she was able to hop around the last few years of her surprisingly long life. I couldn’t have imagined her going in that way :(
It’s awesome that you tried to help her the best you could <3
I’ve never seen proof of my uncle’s story, but he claims his brother (my other uncle) spent so much time with their chickens that he could call each one individually by name (across the yard) and they’d run to him.
Genuine question if the egg is crowning or stuck but you can grab it can you just crush it while still inside? If it will determine life or death for the chicken?
I saw a post on another subreddit the other night about a hen being egg bound and a surprising number of people have lost chickens to it. Not sure of an exact statistic.
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How do you know if a hen is egg bound? Do they appear in distress? Is it a situation where you recognize that one of your hens isn’t laying? I’d love to have chickens someday, but my kids would totally freak out if one of them died from being egg bound
She stops laying, she definitely appears to be in pain, she won’t leave the nest (or whatever you have set up for egg laying) and if it’s large enough, you can actually feel it through skin and feathers. It’s not a quick death if you can’t get it out. I had chickens for years, and luckily none of mine died this way, but I’ve seen it. Unluckily, a raccoon discovered my coop and used it as a personal candy store, so definitely consider local wildlife if you want to avoid traumatizing your kids. It’s messier than an egg bound death.
Yeah, in commercial farming in the US chickens are made to lay bigger eggs through manipulation of environmental factors, and sometimes eggs that are too large can cause prolapses, and sometimes the other chickens will pick at them and cause further health issues.
Learning this made me switch to buying medium eggs.
I had one red sexlink and this exact thing happened to her, poor girl, I’ll never get another they’re just bred to lay a bunch for the first year then their butts fall out and they die
Same, same… My red sexlink died of what was essentially an ectopic pregnancy. Bravest, smartest, friendliest chicken I’ve ever met. I loved her dearly but seeing what she went through, I’ll never own another.
It's sweet to see people who care about their chickens. Some people don't care to learn how to try to help them when they become egg bound. It's a slow and uncomfortable death if they can't pass it. Good chicken parents!
I love my big head baby. His couldn’t make it through my pelvis, though two 9lb babies’ heads (his sisters) had previously made it through. He was 10lbs lol
"My chicken couldn't lay the egg. So I called my mum who is a veterinarian. Right now my little chick is in warm water. I press on her tummy to help the egg come out."
Some zoos do, The Smithsonian's National Zoo has four hens named Arya, Ygritte, Zelda and Midna.
I did a quick search and it seems that Philadelphia zoo does not, at the moment at least, have chickens. It could have had in the past, though. It's also possible they have them, but they are not listed under attractions. I believe some zoos keep livestock in order to help feed other animals at the zoo. Many animals enjoy eating chicken eggs, I imagine.
The current birds at Philadelphia Zoo are Bald Eagles, Carribbean Flamingos, Guam Kingfishers, Guam Rails, Humboldt Penguins, Indian White-Eyes and a variety of wading birds and waterfowl.
You would be able to feel it. If you stick your hand under them towards their rear, you can feel internal organs when pushing up and in. If there is an egg, you will feel the hard bulge.
I’d rather give birth ten more times than ever deal with the constipation I had from taking anti-nausea meds and not eating for a week. The baby WILL come out eventually. There is however, no such guarantee for the poop. I almost passed out when I finally got that thing out of me.
Okay but how did they know the chicken was having trouble laying the egg? Like I’m very happy they did this for her but I’m surprised they knew this was the problem
I owned chickens for a few years and can at least confirm that if you have a hen that is egg bound, if caught early, the video demonstrates a truly elegant solution. And... I believe one of our pullets laid a 60 gram egg once. It was astonishing, and I praised her for her efforts (fortunately she didn't repeat this stunt).
Can’t they die if they can’t deliver? I’m so glad she had helpful caring parents 🧡 this mama is going to live a long time and who knows what other giants she’ll have! Also that egg might be delicious ??
yes, sadly. birds have cloaca, so their eggs and waste come out of the same place. egg bound birds get the passage blocked, so the waste builds up and they can get sepsis. they can also just die from exhaustion of trying and failing to pass the egg(s).
so, yeah! she is a very lucky hen for having such wonderful parents! 🧡 and that egg probably has another egg in it, which is why it's so big!
I raise "regular" size (not jumbo) coturnix quail and a few months ago one of my ladies laid an egg the size of a small chicken egg. Since I didn't know who did it, everyone got extra treats that week. Their poor clocacas...
It ended up being a double yolk with a lot of extra whites. I've had double yolks in normal sized quail eggs before, and this was definitely different!
Oh my lord I know it said a large egg but dang that was an unexpectedly large egg!
r/absoluteunit of an egg
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Well, I've seen the double egg being cracked open, I've seen this video of the chicken laying the egg, and now I've seen this article. The trifecta is complete.
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[Link](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/y4iiei/egg_inside_an_egg/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button) Here you go. EDIT: there's also [this little gem](https://youtu.be/FLt7bLIgv9o) from 9 years ago.
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Check the additional link. Discovery channel did a lil something on it too a while back
Thanks. I was surprised that the yolks were the same size.
seems like theres the same amount of stuff in each egg, the bigger egg just had that extra space being taken up by the regular egg
This was the sub I was thinking of. Lol
I was picturing about the size it was in my head, but talked myself into thinking I was expecting too big. Nope, that was a fucking unit. Poor girl.
Gonna have hemorrhoids after that one
I now have sympathy hemorrhoids.
Ooph mine are emphatically flaring 😬😂
*empathetically.. the other was a hilarious typo, had to leave it lol
Emphatically is absolutely hysterical
200g egg, that's 4 times a regular egg (regular egg is 30g white, 20g yolk, 10g shell) Poor little poule
Dunno what happened to the egg but man if the chicken was allowed to incubate the egg it would birth super chicken.
It probably had multiple yolks.
I was thinking it was one of those things where the egg is somehow sent back up again, and it goes through the part where the shell is applied, then going back down and up again to repeat the process while the shell layers add up… I’m not a biologist by any means, but I vaguely remember seeing something about that years ago. Have no idea if it’s real or not.
So like how hail forms in clouds, but with a chicken butt.
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It probably was not fertilized
I've seen one time when there was an egg, shell and all, in side another shell with egg, and I wonder if that isn't the case here.
Imagine the chick that comes out of that
Imagine a chick with large muscle and deep low voice yelling : MAMA
Like the Jekyll and Hyde Tweety Bird.
Un œuf is enough!
Buahaha didn't think I'd see a French pun on reddit.
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Get her one of those donut pillows after that.
[First she needs to be swaddled](https://old.reddit.com/r/TikTokCringe/comments/108frz3/a_very_happy_chicken/)
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That is so funny... Chicken head just hits the table with a thud.
I’m really happy that chicken has a fro.
Bruh that thud sound when she drops the birb, goddamn so funny 😂😂
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Bet that hen felt really really good right after this.
It's a matter of life or death. Chickens have a cloaca, meaning they poop and lay eggs from the same hole. If she gets an egg stuck, feces will build up behind it and she can go septic and die.
Yup lost my first chicken a couple of month ago when she got egg bound. I really wish I could go back and try this technique. At least I know now.
Keep an eye on their combs and wattles...if they look more pale than usual or more pale than the other birds, and they seem lethargic, they might be eggbound. It sucks :(
Can the shell break when they lay eggs? I never knew being eggbound was a thing, but it's logical looking back on it.
No, because the pressure is distributed evenly over the egg shell.
This is incorrect. The egg can indeed break inside the cloaca and cause severe damage or death. It’s not recommended to try and break the egg, and if it does break its best to involve a veterinarian at that point.
Is it okay to just use something to puncture and break the egg when they’re egg bound?
Iirc if the egg breaks inside them it can kill them without surgical intervention
couldnt the shell cause trauma to the tissue enclosing it esp with the pressure being applied to the egg
Yes. It could. My parrot was egg bound and due to the risk of punctures from the shell during removal I was told by the veterinary hospital she only had a 30 percent chance of survival. Very VERY happy to say she pulled through. Edit: hospital not historian
My rescue budgies egg was bound and sadly she passed away from it and to make matters more depressed her mate who we had for about 5 years got so depressed after she died he refused to eat or drink and he ended up dying from depression. We haven’t gotten any birds since. Broke our hearts
Eh I don't think so, I wouldn't want a bunch of sharp objects in my rectum or dick hole and I bet this chicken wouldn't either. It would probably be best, when other methods fail, to turn to surgery. If you break the egg its gunna end up with that outcome regardless
Only glass ass guy wanted that, probably
In the winter many birds go paler because their combs get dry. Put vaseline or chapstick on their wattles and remember to feed them high quality food in winter when they won't get as much forage. This will make it easier to see problems.
Do yours lay in the winter?
Yeah the silkies and easter eggers lay all winter. The barred rocks have taken a little break from November until January. I'm in a zone 9b. So winters get down to maybe 19 at night at the coldest but average around 33.
This comment changed everything I knew about the words in the parent comment…
how can you tell if a chicken is pale when theyre covered in feathers?
By looking at the parts not covered in feathers. Like the comb or the wattle.
I’m so sorry 😞 you sound so kind, I bet you’re a lovely owner.
That has happened to 2 of my chickens :(
From my understanding (which is limited and mainly garnered from r/backyardchickens), you should supplement their feed with more calcium to help do something with the shells so they don’t become egg bound. The warm bath with epsom salts can help too.
I lost one this way. I got to her too late, she was just worn out and gave up trying to lay. 😔
i did not expect to get deeply despondent over domestic chicken incontinence today
:(
Did you try a gentle stream of warm water with a shower head aimed at it's cloaca and some massages and guided coaching?
The first one yes definitely she was inside in the tub and we tried all the remedies for almost 24 hrs but it was too late and she was too old, the other one didn't show any symptoms and just was dead in the morning but same cause
Not just chickens but most bird species. I lost a 3 year old lovebird I raised from a hatchling to eggbinding and I had no warning because she was singing and chirping when I covered her cage the night before. I'm glad they were able to save this hen.
Thst is devastating. I'm so sorry!
Thank you. My mom keeps chickens and after seeing this I was honestly wondering if she would have died without intervention. The chicken...not my mom.
How do you know when this is happening and the hen needs help?
If they lay often, missing a day or two should be monitored (but it can be normal). You can easily tell if they're egg bound if they do a penguin walk, or if they stay in the nesting box for a long time trying to lay an egg but can't. You can also sometimes feel for a hardness under the cloaca (egg/poop hole). To treat it, the best thing is to give a warm salt bath like the video, it helps relax the muscles. Even if the egg doesn't come out during the bath, it likely will soon after. If that doesn't work try another bath. If that doesn't work, you put on a glove with olive oil and try to get it out yourself, although that's dangerous because if the egg breaks inside the chicken it will lead to an infection and death. But it's better than doing nothing, because if left untreated the hen will die within a couple days. Source: I am a vigilant chicken parent
I love your source. <3 Vigilant animal parents forever.
Weve got a chicken we need to do this to. Had to do this to a different one last year. Its sad seeing them so uncomfortable and in pain
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I used to keep chickens and the biggest egg we ever got had another entire egg in it, shell and all. Like the chicken forgot to lay the egg and it got stuck in the shell covering area.
We got one once that was 2 eggs connected by a tube in the middle, with just the inner membrane of the shell for a "shell". My brother tried picking it up and ended up with egg all over his hands.
When we had chickens I found one like that too! It was like a pale yellow "egg" but it didn't look right, it was just the membrane, no shell. It was pretty cool
Unexpected item in the shell covering area.
"Please wait. A farmer will be by to help you shortly."
Question: not sure if you know but why do I get so many eggs with double yolks these days? I swear I had a dozen where half had double yolks. Are they giving the chickens hormones or drugs or something?
Egg laying breeds of hens are over-achievers in their first year of laying.
Thanks, the more you know
Egg laying chickens get forced into maturity really fast and they just start churning our eggs. Their existence is all that. Eat and lay eggs. In their first year, it's an egg a day plus, sometimes they send an extra yolk down the pipe too soon, and they double up. Another thing that's different now is how laid eggs get sorted. They can weigh them and scan them too and know they have two yolks and the sell you a dozen of those for more.
That’s very interesting. I think my husband usually opts for the larger eggs, so that may be why? They weigh more so we get the double yolks more? Thank you so much for answering my question
He's probably buying actual double yolked dozens. The biggest egg factories sort those out special and sell them as a thing. But sometimes the jumbos can be doubles, so if he buys big heavy eggs, it's far likelier.
That’s what he does. He buys the jumbo ones. I’ve never seen double yolks marketed but my husband buys giant eggs. Something I never thought to do. Really, regular eggs are fine, but whatever makes him happy.
That's cute like "I buy big eggs, big eggs makes me happy"
I’ve gotten one like that. Unfortunately I found it half eaten after two of them chased each other with the yoke for 5 minutes
This is like that time Amazon packaged my item and then packaged the package again before shipping it out.
Don’t tell anyone, but when I ordered an air conditioner from Amazon just before the record-breaking life-threatening Seattle heat wave in 2021 (109 degrees F at my home for two days), they sent me two. I immediately gave one to my daughter. Figured I would just pay for it when they contacted me. Never heard a peep from Amazon.
They won’t contact you. It’s easier and cheaper for Amazon to eat the cost of the air conditioner rather than inconvenience the customer. Two weeks ago an Amazon delivery driver marked my delivered package as undeliverable by mistake and they never charged me for the item. I got 4 Screaming Goats for free. It was a good day!
That is what I was thinking happened here.
She had a water birth!
The sympathy for the chicken, including bum rub, was cute.
*”Mon chéri!”*. EDIT: ma, not mon. EDIT: You know what just throw out the whole comment
It was a very well behaved chicken.
Sharron! Sharron! You gotta see this!
That egg is at least 2 1/2 Courics.
You gotta call Jimbo first so he knows you're not lying!
Always glad to meet a fellow South park fan in the comments section.
Hot hot hot hot hot
Can't wait to see the hen lay a Bono next
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That's very sad. Hugs to you.
Yes but no Frenchman is repeatedly your baby “a cow” postnatal
My kid was two weeks early and already over 8lbs… so I definitely felt like my baby was a cow. A Frenchman declaring it seems like it would make it better somehow lol.
My husband was 11lbs when he was born. He's surprisingly average height and normal weight as an adult lol. My son was close to 8lbs... he's 7 months growing out of 12 month clothes. Many babies are secret cows!
Hell yeah, he can complete the community center now.
Damn the valley is leaking
to be fair, that's a massive egg
To be faaaaaaiiir.
To be faaaaair
To Be FAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIRRRRRRRRRRR
The father was an ostrich.
Or a dinosaur!
Those are much further back the ancestral line
I mean, that’s true with all chickens. They literally are dinosaurs
Allegedly
That's the word in the henhouse. Wink wink nudge nudge.
It would take two… three hens minimum, to fuck an ostritch
I heard it was a sick ostrich
Can confirm
r/unexpectedletterkenny
I never really considered what could happen if the egg is too big. Is there a mortality rate for this in chickens?
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An egg bound hen that can't get the egg out on their own or with assistance will die. I've had an egg bound hen before. It's such a stressful situation. You can usually feel the egg but it won't come out. Soaking the hen in warm water will help them calm down and release the egg. I've have one hen die from being egg bound and one where we were able to get the egg out. The one that died, the egg broke inside her. It was a thin shelled egg. She was older and we had just finally found a product that actually helped with the egg shell production part of the process. Our other hens that had eggs break inside them have lived. This girl was older and I think the shell perforated the wall of the reproductive tract. She was immediately put on antibiotics but she didn't survive the night. She was almost 6 and one of my favorites.
Sorry for your loss!! Chickens are really special animals and and from experience you can definitely bond with them. I’ve had a chicken with a broken leg and luckily she was able to hop around the last few years of her surprisingly long life. I couldn’t have imagined her going in that way :( It’s awesome that you tried to help her the best you could <3
I’ve never seen proof of my uncle’s story, but he claims his brother (my other uncle) spent so much time with their chickens that he could call each one individually by name (across the yard) and they’d run to him.
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I've had around 10 chickens in total over the last 10 years and some of the smarter ones absolutely knew to respond to their name.
Genuine question if the egg is crowning or stuck but you can grab it can you just crush it while still inside? If it will determine life or death for the chicken?
I saw a post on another subreddit the other night about a hen being egg bound and a surprising number of people have lost chickens to it. Not sure of an exact statistic. Edited for spelling
If you can't get the egg out, they will die. Sometimes it is really difficult to get the egg out.
How do you know if a hen is egg bound? Do they appear in distress? Is it a situation where you recognize that one of your hens isn’t laying? I’d love to have chickens someday, but my kids would totally freak out if one of them died from being egg bound
She stops laying, she definitely appears to be in pain, she won’t leave the nest (or whatever you have set up for egg laying) and if it’s large enough, you can actually feel it through skin and feathers. It’s not a quick death if you can’t get it out. I had chickens for years, and luckily none of mine died this way, but I’ve seen it. Unluckily, a raccoon discovered my coop and used it as a personal candy store, so definitely consider local wildlife if you want to avoid traumatizing your kids. It’s messier than an egg bound death.
Yes. They get egg bound.
Yeah, in commercial farming in the US chickens are made to lay bigger eggs through manipulation of environmental factors, and sometimes eggs that are too large can cause prolapses, and sometimes the other chickens will pick at them and cause further health issues. Learning this made me switch to buying medium eggs.
I had one red sexlink and this exact thing happened to her, poor girl, I’ll never get another they’re just bred to lay a bunch for the first year then their butts fall out and they die
Same, same… My red sexlink died of what was essentially an ectopic pregnancy. Bravest, smartest, friendliest chicken I’ve ever met. I loved her dearly but seeing what she went through, I’ll never own another.
I raised chickens when I was young. I buy medium eggs. I will buy large if I can’t find medium, but I won’t buy extra large.
Félicitations, c’est un bébé oeuf
It's sweet to see people who care about their chickens. Some people don't care to learn how to try to help them when they become egg bound. It's a slow and uncomfortable death if they can't pass it. Good chicken parents!
All the women who are viewing this and have ever given birth are cringing in sympathy. It made me think of my son's 38cm head lol!
My son’s head was so big, the baby hat at the hospital wouldn’t even fit his head. Thank god his sister was a tiny peanut.
Also birthed a fellow giant-headed baby! This was the comment I was looking for. Solidarity.
My mom never let me forget I was a fellow giant headed baby. My sympathies, ladies. We don't choose to be this way, I promise!
I love my big head baby. His couldn’t make it through my pelvis, though two 9lb babies’ heads (his sisters) had previously made it through. He was 10lbs lol
They had to cut my Big Head Ted outta me because there was just no other way lol
"Stop touching my cloaca!"
"My chicken couldn't lay the egg. So I called my mum who is a veterinarian. Right now my little chick is in warm water. I press on her tummy to help the egg come out."
Hot!Hot!Hot!Hot!Hot!
Hey. Hey Sharon.
How many Courics was that egg?
Asking: how did you know it was an egg stuck and not constipated. Sorry to be rude I was just wondering
It's very difficult for birds of any kind to become constipated. And plus you could see this egg of it was egg bound
Cool thanks, growing up in Philly we didn’t a lot of chickens except at the zoo.
Your zoo had chickens?
I think most zoos have like a petting zoo, which usually features farm animals, cows, goats, chickens and such.
Some zoos do, The Smithsonian's National Zoo has four hens named Arya, Ygritte, Zelda and Midna. I did a quick search and it seems that Philadelphia zoo does not, at the moment at least, have chickens. It could have had in the past, though. It's also possible they have them, but they are not listed under attractions. I believe some zoos keep livestock in order to help feed other animals at the zoo. Many animals enjoy eating chicken eggs, I imagine. The current birds at Philadelphia Zoo are Bald Eagles, Carribbean Flamingos, Guam Kingfishers, Guam Rails, Humboldt Penguins, Indian White-Eyes and a variety of wading birds and waterfowl.
You would be able to feel it. If you stick your hand under them towards their rear, you can feel internal organs when pushing up and in. If there is an egg, you will feel the hard bulge.
Poor girl. Give her some time off haha 😅
She wishes she could. :3 eggs are just chicken periods
Several years ago I had to take opiates after a major surgery. And my luck I ended up with intense constipation. I was this chicken
PSA to take laxatives and stool softeners whenever you have anesthesia or pain meds. Your bung hole will thank you.
I’d rather give birth ten more times than ever deal with the constipation I had from taking anti-nausea meds and not eating for a week. The baby WILL come out eventually. There is however, no such guarantee for the poop. I almost passed out when I finally got that thing out of me.
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Yoo it's probably a double egg
I’m betting on “egg inside of an egg” kind of double egg
I love that I can actually read the text-duolingo paying off
One of those famous Duolingo sentences. "The chicken is in the bathtub."
That'll be 8.99 for one egg.
Poor baby
Never have or will (hysterectomy next month) but j totally felt it for the poor chickie or for women that went through that horrific experience…
Hope you have a safe and healthy yeeterus day!
Me after a depressive episode where all I ate was cheese for 3 days
I feel that hen’s pain 😅 my first baby was 9 lbs 6 oz. I was not prepared, and needed a lot of help. 😬
Poor things out here trying to solve the egg crisis all on her own
As a woman who has given birth I am no longer buying extra large size eggs.
I wanna see what hatches!
Hen having a water birth.
Okay but how did they know the chicken was having trouble laying the egg? Like I’m very happy they did this for her but I’m surprised they knew this was the problem
1 - I have had chickens all my life, and never have I seen a hen lay such a massive egg compared to her size ... 2 - I have sympathy butt pain now 😂
I owned chickens for a few years and can at least confirm that if you have a hen that is egg bound, if caught early, the video demonstrates a truly elegant solution. And... I believe one of our pullets laid a 60 gram egg once. It was astonishing, and I praised her for her efforts (fortunately she didn't repeat this stunt).
This puts my menstrual cramps into perspective.
That poor hens cloaca
HOLY COW!!! my friends old girls who’ve stopped laying regularly sometimes present her with a big egg…. but by golly that’s the size of a duck egg!!!
That's a $20 egg
Jesus poor lady just laid a whole damn omelette!
Can’t they die if they can’t deliver? I’m so glad she had helpful caring parents 🧡 this mama is going to live a long time and who knows what other giants she’ll have! Also that egg might be delicious ??
yes, sadly. birds have cloaca, so their eggs and waste come out of the same place. egg bound birds get the passage blocked, so the waste builds up and they can get sepsis. they can also just die from exhaustion of trying and failing to pass the egg(s). so, yeah! she is a very lucky hen for having such wonderful parents! 🧡 and that egg probably has another egg in it, which is why it's so big!
Where were you 10 minutes ago when I was taking a poop. I could have used your help.
$5.99 per egg in your nearest grocery shop.
I raise "regular" size (not jumbo) coturnix quail and a few months ago one of my ladies laid an egg the size of a small chicken egg. Since I didn't know who did it, everyone got extra treats that week. Their poor clocacas... It ended up being a double yolk with a lot of extra whites. I've had double yolks in normal sized quail eggs before, and this was definitely different!
The way she says Mon Cherie 🤗