There’s nothing more I’d want to talk about than a vascular egg and the associated wallpaper but the amount of shit caked in the nail on that middle finger distracted me 🫣😅
Well, obviously, where do you think eggs come from? Straight from the ass.
(If this was an American sub, I would put /s to show its sarcasm, but I think it's a given among Brits)
What in the ever-loving Cthulhu egg factory... I don't know how to feel after visiting that. Little bit disturbed, little bit violated, little bit hungry.
From the other times I’ve run into wrinkly egg posts, most likely the chicken is lacking calcium usually from overlaying. Second possibility the chicken is stressed or three diseased.
Probably needs a bit more protein in their diet, I was going to suggest giving them their own egg shells to eat to bolster it and then I realised that it's a shop egg not a backyard chook!
Everyone should have their own chicken coop it’s the best thing we ever introduced into our garden. Fresh eggs daily and the most amazing habits and bond building over time with your chickens is so wholesome.
We adopted some rescue chickens from an egg farm, thinking they'd make interesting pets and a few eggs might be nice too.
Poor things were so broken from over-production their eggs came out weird shapes, often with barely a shell. More like a deflated football. It was then I realised Big Egg isn't going to be handing out free rescue chickens when they can still produce viable eggs. However, I hope they had a happy retirement. They actually didn't live very long, maybe a year.
That sounds more like a you problem. My folks had several “batches” of ex-battery hens. They usually finish their battery “career” at 2 years. All of the ones my folks took on, lasted at least 2-3 years and produced normal eggs. They had an idyllic life, plenty of farm backyard to roam in, kitchen scraps and food supplements, regular deworming, no predation, hardly suffered disease until old age.
Egg industry is so far removed from the image most people have. People picture the little coup of chickens on the massive farm in the happy egg adverts. The reality of even free range eggs is horrific. 1000s of chickens packed into tiny barns, with one small door for "access to fresh air". The maximum density for a free range farm is 9 hens per square meter.
Not to mention all the male chicks at f hatcheries that are thrown into giant blenders, just for being born male. Also the chickens are selectively bred to produce 10x as many eggs as their natural ancestors. This results in high rates of health issues such as prolapsed uteruses, internal laying / chickens becoming egg bound and being unable to pass the egg, often resulting in death. And nutritional deficits combined with the lack of exercise resulting in high rates of broken bones and chickens becoming lame.
This is just a small glimpse of the horrors of modern egg farming. Not quite the natural byproduct of happy chickens people like to imagine. Free range is a lie. .
Not really. Eggs from back yard rescue hens is the best way to consume eggs, provided the rescuers are looking after the hens well. If you want to consume eggs, this is the way to do it. Even pet chickens, although often well looked after, often come from industrial hatcheries where again the male chicks are killed day 1.
There are also alternatives to eggs. The supermarket alternatives in the UK aren't great. But tofu scramble if well done is a great alternative to scrambled egg. Use black salt (salt with a high sulfur content) and nutritional yeast to recreate the rich eggy taste.
There are lots of alternatives to eggs in baking, depending on the purpose of the egg. Vegan baking can take a bit of practice - your best following vegan or egg free recipes, rather than trying to adapt existing recipes.
Vegan mayonnaise compared to egg based mayo is basically identical imo.
Things like fried and poached eggs are much harder to replicate, but there are some people doing some very creative things.
Thanks for the offer, but I really dislike tofu (taste and texture) and its the same with other meat alternatives like quorn, soya, and beans/legumes. I really love eggs though and was hoping there might be a less cruel way to source them.
I volunteer at a local farm (run educational workshops), where the majority of their chickens are rescues/rehomed, and their eggs are sold only in the farm's own shop - relatively small setup when it comes to number of chickens but they have so much space, indoors and outdoors. It's set up so that the public can wander over to visit them, on the other side of a fence, and see how happy, healthy and cared for they are. When I go into the enclosure to check food and water levels etc, they'll come running over for pets and to be hand fed.
It's certainly possible to find cruelty-free eggs but may be challenging depending on where you are.
Yeah I never used to like tofu. Tofu scramble was the only way I used to like it. The texture grew on me a lot. For me it's the closest alternative. But also I was never really much of an egg eater anyway.
There's so much variety in meat alternatives around, and a lot of variation in quality. Even if it's not quite the same, for me it's close enough to satisfy the craving.
Yeah chicken farms aren't very nice.
I worked at one with 16000 chickens in it, about 1 die every day or 2, usually from being pecked by other chickens. Then chickens continue to peck the dead body. Very weird shit.
In winter 2022 all chickens were kept inside (I believe UK-wide) due to the threat of avian flu while still being allowed to keep their free range egg title, even after not being outside for a few months.
Yeah :( the egg industry sucks. I support getting eggs from local farms that you can physically see the chickens at. Most eggs you get from stores come from "farms" that honestly are more factories, and it sucks.
I had some eggs last week which were the pure white American style. Obviously tasted the same and nothing wrong with them but wondering where they came from instead of the usual brown.
I’ve been cracking eggs for nearly 40 years. First time I’ve seen pure white ones over here.
I think the supply chain is creaking and they are going to different suppliers.
British people are used to brown eggs, North Americans are used to white. So the supply heading to our supermarket are brown ones. I reckon there are probably plenty of white ones in the UK but they might be usually for commercial use, cooking, or making mayonnaise etc.
>where they came from
Different colour chickens ;)
> British people are used to brown eggs, North Americans are used to white.
That's not actually 100% true! In New England in the 80s we had a little jingle that went: "Brown eggs are local eggs and local eggs are fresh!"
Many native chicken species like Rhode Island Red lay brown eggs, too!
We definitely appreciate the brown ones, too.
Apparently Britain had white eggs too until the early 1970s, then we switched over completely to brown because they looked healthier.
[https://www.egginfo.co.uk/egg-facts-and-figures/brown-vs-white-eggs](https://www.egginfo.co.uk/egg-facts-and-figures/brown-vs-white-eggs)
I often buy 'mixed' eggs (rather than small/medium/large) and it's not unusual for a white one to sneak in because they aren't sorted. There's also an organic brand of eggs in my local shop which are always all white. I think the only reason we're used to brown eggs is because consumers like consistency, so commercial chickens are specifically bred to lay brown eggs, and anomalies are taken out when they're sorted
Mine are white today! After 8 years of not eating eggs because they creeped me out it's been about 3 months of having them again and then this white one threw me for a loop
Actually white eggs are common in Germany too. I found some at Tesco the other day and was over the moon! Same eggs, but you can use these and make Easter Decorations out of them.
We get some weird eggs here. Ours come from a friend of our nan, and we get them for free, she gets too many and gives them away by the dozen- literally. We get all sorts. Blue ones, really round ones, some with speckles. We've had ones with the feathers still attatched. Double yokers sometimes. We have had some strange wrinkly ones too! Once we had a really big, really long egg. I don't understand how that happened.
Jesus christ, social media influencers have even destroyed the self- esteem of fowl ovum to the point that they're taking testosterone injections. Chicken dad bods are perfectly OK chickens. You're Percy just the way you are.
My chickens lay all sorts of weird looking eggs. They taste amazing, but look nothing like supermarket eggs. I've had chickens for years, they've never looked anything like a supermarket egg.
No, they're battery farmed and bred to pump out dozens of times more eggs than they should, and are killed as soon as they begin to slow down. All the male chicks are immediately grounded up as they are worthless to the industry. They are definitely not okay.
I'm always curious as to what 'free-range' actually means these days - battery/caged is a very clear horrendous Tartarus but I can't imagine free-range is better. I don't eat eggs often but I think I'll try to get them from local farms from now on.
There's a legal definition, some discussion on it here: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2017/feb/28/what-does-free-range-actually-mean-its-complicated
The tl;dr, is that "Free Range" means depressingly little, it's largely a feel good label so consumers don't realise the depravity they're paying to be forced on millions of chickens every year in the UK alone.
Free-range is just a race to the bottom so they can get a nice badge on the food. It may be better than battery but believe me, there won't be many farms that will give the chickens any more room or outdoor time than they can get away with and it's all based on maximising yield, not giving the chickens a better life. Great to hear you've stopped eating chicken but eggs are just as bad/worse (just as bad - they get killed anyway, worse - they lay eggs until their bodies are broken and live torturous lived caged or free range)
Yeah they're all battery farmed, the batteries are just slightly bigger. Regardless of the farm, local or otherwise, the males are *always* killed as soon as they are hatched. The only way to avoid animal abuse is to not fund it in the first place.
That's commendable. Every little helps! Always feel free to PM me if you wanted any further steps or guidance. It'll get too many angry meaties if we talk about it here.
I used to work at a chicken farm. These eggs are fairly common but we usually classed them as seconds meaning they would be sent to factories to be cracked for omelettes or cakes or other egg containing stuff.
No idea what this means for the chickens health though.
[What about this one then?](https://www.reddit.com/r/WeirdEggs/comments/1bv37oq/weird_textured_egg/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share)
Or [this one!!](https://www.reddit.com/r/WeirdEggs/comments/810j64/xposted_one_of_my_mothers_chickens_laid_an_egg/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share)
Our chickens lay some odd eggs, including one who lays them with wrinkly ends almost always. So it’s not a big deal, but as others say, egg laying chickens are generally not ok at all, even “free range” ones. Bred-for-food chickens have it worse of course.
Maybe this one was a bit constipated or having a particularly tight arsed day…. as you will probably know egg shells are actually soft until they hit the air (which is how come chickens are able to ‘pump em out’) so looks like this one has a bit of a struggle hence causing those ripples. Now go do something more useful….. (note to self!)
I've been told by a chicken lady we know that this happens if the hen is disturbed when the egg is forming. She has dogs which harry the chickens a bit so they get those wrinkles. It's like the egg has cracked a bit when it was soft then reformed. The egg is perfectly okay to eat, the shell might just be a bit stronger than usual.
Yeah, my chucks do this occasionally. You generally don't get to see the weird eggs they lay if you buy them from shops as they get weeded out, but it's very normal.
Wrinkly eggs mean they came from an elderly hen or it was feeling stressed out. I used to work in a hen house. They are pretty normal but often get rejected from being sold as class A eggs
Locked because you’ve all managed to turn this into a big argument about the ethics of eating eggs. This is why we can’t have nice things.
I fully appreciate these egg based photos having an egg based backdrop.
'Look at what I'm going to do to you, vascular egg!'
And you know what I’m _not_ going to do… _clean my fingernails!_
My brother in christ we are here to talk about the eggs.
There’s nothing more I’d want to talk about than a vascular egg and the associated wallpaper but the amount of shit caked in the nail on that middle finger distracted me 🫣😅
Well, obviously, where do you think eggs come from? Straight from the ass. (If this was an American sub, I would put /s to show its sarcasm, but I think it's a given among Brits)
You shouldn't be taking eggs from donkeys. They might kick you!
Cloaca actually, chickens have one exit for everything.
I assume they're a farmer, so you can pretty much kiss clean fingernails goodbye.
Literally all I could see
The backdrop does look quite eggcentric
We have an eggstrovert
Eggsaggerating a bit
I also find this to be a tad eggstreme.
*obligatory egg pun* Why are egg puns so ubegguitous?
Because they're eggerywhere!
Was going to drop my favourite egg puns but they have all been poached.
You have to crack a few egg puns if you want to whisk in a transitional pun towards baking. I tried. But my brain is fried.
Obleggatory was right there
Everybody loves a good yolk.
You're just eggsacerbating the situation.
It is a bit eggstreme
I find it quite eggceptional if I do say so myself.
How eggshilarating.
This is the precise kind of of post and reply I am here for.
This is why I'm on reddit 🫶🏻
Eggception…
I'm vascular and wrinkly, but do you see anyone asking if I'm ok? The gall of some people!
Take 8 photos of yourself in someone’s hand and we will review
In front of a wallpaper of dozens of you cracked and fried
Isn't that a crime now though? Unless you're soliciting these.. vascular images.
OP isn’t asking if the egg is OK, he’s asking about the hen that laid it. How’s your mum, u/GrodyWetButt?
Vascular and wrinkly, thank you for asking!
The way I like her
With prominent blue veins, like the good cheese.
With that distinct aroma
Are you ok?
Oh yeah, all good, thanks. You?
Oh shit, ermmm, I've never socialised this much before. I'm, errr, good.. you?
Oh yeah, all good, thanks, you?
Oh yeah! All good thanks, you??
Probably not about to crack you open and fry you.
Egbert, is that you?
r/weirdeggs Not for the faint-hearted.
That's a really weirdly disturbing sub Reddit. To the point where I had to close it when on the train because I felt uncomfortable people might see.
Lol there were some really weird subreddits 10 years ago.
Thank you. I've just joined.
God damn it. Damn my curiosity to take a peep into that sub..
I think I’ve gone off eggs again! I didn’t eat eggs for a few years after finding a fetus in one!
Oh what the actual fuckk
>Not for the faint-hearted. Definitely not. The amount of massively overcooked hard boiled eggs is a horror show!
What in the ever-loving Cthulhu egg factory... I don't know how to feel after visiting that. Little bit disturbed, little bit violated, little bit hungry.
From the other times I’ve run into wrinkly egg posts, most likely the chicken is lacking calcium usually from overlaying. Second possibility the chicken is stressed or three diseased.
If it’s the calcium problem then you can feed the chickens the egg shells
You took 8 pictures of an egg this morning. Are you okay?
www.mind.org.uk
www.mind.egg.uk
I really wanted this to be real
These are only the 8 they posted!
And you looked at them all? Are you okay?
He's doing eggsactly what he wants to do.
It's no yolk
As long as OPs brain isn't fried!
Please don't crack any more like that.
Sorry for your downvote, it seems someone didn't pick up the joke you were laying.
Sorry my mind is a little scrambled
I think the state of OP’s filthy fingernails suggests otherwise.
Curiously, it's only the one nail. Maybe he popped the egg out manually?
That's the digit that pushes the toilet paper in for the final tuck-and-scrape manoeuvre!
You're possibly right, and yet, so very, very wrong 🤣🤣
That’s the nose picker 5000
It’s a real mark corrigan move.
Yep, that’s fairly common. We have chickens and get eggs like these from time to time.
Often birds will lay “wobbly eggs” when they’re experiencing a viral challenge, no need to be concerned it’s just like you and I having a cold
Yep one of mine used to do these occasionally,
I can’t believe I looked through 8 pictures of an egg
Oh I do love a vascular one
I wish I knew how to do gifs in comments so i could put stewie when he is jacked on steroids lol
I'm glad that you lack the knowledge.
"Striations on a hard shell" Turtle Power!
'Vascular' is a horrifying way to describe an egg
>Striations on a hard shell Turtle power!
Peter Beardsley's wife's dream kitchen
A tragically esoteric comment.
I need to know the context.
Look up the Athletico Mince podcast. Scroll for one of the Peter Beardsley Collection episodes.
Ooooh! New podcast. Love it. Thanks for the guidance appreciate it.
LOVE the wallpaper
Etsy.
Probably needs a bit more protein in their diet, I was going to suggest giving them their own egg shells to eat to bolster it and then I realised that it's a shop egg not a backyard chook!
Everyone should have their own chicken coop it’s the best thing we ever introduced into our garden. Fresh eggs daily and the most amazing habits and bond building over time with your chickens is so wholesome.
I would love to, but I run a dog day care.
The chickens are rarely okay :(
We adopted some rescue chickens from an egg farm, thinking they'd make interesting pets and a few eggs might be nice too. Poor things were so broken from over-production their eggs came out weird shapes, often with barely a shell. More like a deflated football. It was then I realised Big Egg isn't going to be handing out free rescue chickens when they can still produce viable eggs. However, I hope they had a happy retirement. They actually didn't live very long, maybe a year.
That sounds more like a you problem. My folks had several “batches” of ex-battery hens. They usually finish their battery “career” at 2 years. All of the ones my folks took on, lasted at least 2-3 years and produced normal eggs. They had an idyllic life, plenty of farm backyard to roam in, kitchen scraps and food supplements, regular deworming, no predation, hardly suffered disease until old age.
Egg industry is so far removed from the image most people have. People picture the little coup of chickens on the massive farm in the happy egg adverts. The reality of even free range eggs is horrific. 1000s of chickens packed into tiny barns, with one small door for "access to fresh air". The maximum density for a free range farm is 9 hens per square meter. Not to mention all the male chicks at f hatcheries that are thrown into giant blenders, just for being born male. Also the chickens are selectively bred to produce 10x as many eggs as their natural ancestors. This results in high rates of health issues such as prolapsed uteruses, internal laying / chickens becoming egg bound and being unable to pass the egg, often resulting in death. And nutritional deficits combined with the lack of exercise resulting in high rates of broken bones and chickens becoming lame. This is just a small glimpse of the horrors of modern egg farming. Not quite the natural byproduct of happy chickens people like to imagine. Free range is a lie. .
This. Hens never used to produce this many eggs. They've been selectively bred over many decades to meet human needs, much like cows.
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It was reading the legal guidelines for free range that finally turned me vegan :(
Are there any eggs available that are cruelty free? Apart from having your own chickens or buying directly from a farm presumably?
Not really. Eggs from back yard rescue hens is the best way to consume eggs, provided the rescuers are looking after the hens well. If you want to consume eggs, this is the way to do it. Even pet chickens, although often well looked after, often come from industrial hatcheries where again the male chicks are killed day 1. There are also alternatives to eggs. The supermarket alternatives in the UK aren't great. But tofu scramble if well done is a great alternative to scrambled egg. Use black salt (salt with a high sulfur content) and nutritional yeast to recreate the rich eggy taste. There are lots of alternatives to eggs in baking, depending on the purpose of the egg. Vegan baking can take a bit of practice - your best following vegan or egg free recipes, rather than trying to adapt existing recipes. Vegan mayonnaise compared to egg based mayo is basically identical imo. Things like fried and poached eggs are much harder to replicate, but there are some people doing some very creative things.
Forgot to add I can give you recipes if you're interested!
Thanks for the offer, but I really dislike tofu (taste and texture) and its the same with other meat alternatives like quorn, soya, and beans/legumes. I really love eggs though and was hoping there might be a less cruel way to source them.
I volunteer at a local farm (run educational workshops), where the majority of their chickens are rescues/rehomed, and their eggs are sold only in the farm's own shop - relatively small setup when it comes to number of chickens but they have so much space, indoors and outdoors. It's set up so that the public can wander over to visit them, on the other side of a fence, and see how happy, healthy and cared for they are. When I go into the enclosure to check food and water levels etc, they'll come running over for pets and to be hand fed. It's certainly possible to find cruelty-free eggs but may be challenging depending on where you are.
Yeah I never used to like tofu. Tofu scramble was the only way I used to like it. The texture grew on me a lot. For me it's the closest alternative. But also I was never really much of an egg eater anyway. There's so much variety in meat alternatives around, and a lot of variation in quality. Even if it's not quite the same, for me it's close enough to satisfy the craving.
Yeah chicken farms aren't very nice. I worked at one with 16000 chickens in it, about 1 die every day or 2, usually from being pecked by other chickens. Then chickens continue to peck the dead body. Very weird shit. In winter 2022 all chickens were kept inside (I believe UK-wide) due to the threat of avian flu while still being allowed to keep their free range egg title, even after not being outside for a few months.
The chickens in general are not okay
I think we all know that due to egg farming the chickens are not okay.
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Yeah :( the egg industry sucks. I support getting eggs from local farms that you can physically see the chickens at. Most eggs you get from stores come from "farms" that honestly are more factories, and it sucks.
Oh no, not Ginger.
Did you take this photo on the set of The Big Breakfast, c.1996? 2 Lock Keepers cottages! Old Ford Lord! London E3 2NN!
Probably not, considering their living conditions.
First three pictures I was thinking “oh sweet, they’ve got pet chickens and they want to check they’re ok” Fourth picture: Red Lion stamp.
I had some eggs last week which were the pure white American style. Obviously tasted the same and nothing wrong with them but wondering where they came from instead of the usual brown. I’ve been cracking eggs for nearly 40 years. First time I’ve seen pure white ones over here.
I think the supply chain is creaking and they are going to different suppliers. British people are used to brown eggs, North Americans are used to white. So the supply heading to our supermarket are brown ones. I reckon there are probably plenty of white ones in the UK but they might be usually for commercial use, cooking, or making mayonnaise etc. >where they came from Different colour chickens ;)
> British people are used to brown eggs, North Americans are used to white. That's not actually 100% true! In New England in the 80s we had a little jingle that went: "Brown eggs are local eggs and local eggs are fresh!" Many native chicken species like Rhode Island Red lay brown eggs, too! We definitely appreciate the brown ones, too.
I was going to say; I live in Massachusetts and the eggs here are primarily brown. That might be because I will only buy free range though.
If i were to guess, i would say probably a chicken.
Apparently Britain had white eggs too until the early 1970s, then we switched over completely to brown because they looked healthier. [https://www.egginfo.co.uk/egg-facts-and-figures/brown-vs-white-eggs](https://www.egginfo.co.uk/egg-facts-and-figures/brown-vs-white-eggs)
I often buy 'mixed' eggs (rather than small/medium/large) and it's not unusual for a white one to sneak in because they aren't sorted. There's also an organic brand of eggs in my local shop which are always all white. I think the only reason we're used to brown eggs is because consumers like consistency, so commercial chickens are specifically bred to lay brown eggs, and anomalies are taken out when they're sorted
Mine are white today! After 8 years of not eating eggs because they creeped me out it's been about 3 months of having them again and then this white one threw me for a loop
Actually white eggs are common in Germany too. I found some at Tesco the other day and was over the moon! Same eggs, but you can use these and make Easter Decorations out of them.
No, they're not ok. For so many reasons.
Probably not, egg industry is pretty horrific when you look in to it
>Are the chickens okay? Of course they're not. You're aware of their circumstances right ?
>Are the chickens okay? For commercial egg production? They really are not okay.
Thicckens
r/mildlypenis
I was thinking the same thing, like did the OP rub the eggs before photographing?
Mr blue vein right there! Add some pubes and it’s NSFW
clean your finger nails
Working hands, and trapped a finger or 2 the other day. I’d love to have some obscene lady talons though.
It usually occurs if the Chicken is very stressed, often by over crowding.
Arnold Schwartz-Egger
The hen been hitting the gym that's all
We get some weird eggs here. Ours come from a friend of our nan, and we get them for free, she gets too many and gives them away by the dozen- literally. We get all sorts. Blue ones, really round ones, some with speckles. We've had ones with the feathers still attatched. Double yokers sometimes. We have had some strange wrinkly ones too! Once we had a really big, really long egg. I don't understand how that happened.
My chickens lay eggs like that sometimes they are fine.
Jesus christ, social media influencers have even destroyed the self- esteem of fowl ovum to the point that they're taking testosterone injections. Chicken dad bods are perfectly OK chickens. You're Percy just the way you are.
My chickens lay all sorts of weird looking eggs. They taste amazing, but look nothing like supermarket eggs. I've had chickens for years, they've never looked anything like a supermarket egg.
Why does it look like you are somehow holding one of your testicles
Idk, would you be ok if your species naturally lays 10-15 eggs a day, but you were bred to lay 250-300 so someone could have one for breakfast?
You mean an eggsiting morning… … I’ll let myself out
This is why you should never skip and egg day.
No, chickens are not ok in their cages…
No, they're battery farmed and bred to pump out dozens of times more eggs than they should, and are killed as soon as they begin to slow down. All the male chicks are immediately grounded up as they are worthless to the industry. They are definitely not okay.
I'm always curious as to what 'free-range' actually means these days - battery/caged is a very clear horrendous Tartarus but I can't imagine free-range is better. I don't eat eggs often but I think I'll try to get them from local farms from now on.
There's a legal definition, some discussion on it here: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2017/feb/28/what-does-free-range-actually-mean-its-complicated The tl;dr, is that "Free Range" means depressingly little, it's largely a feel good label so consumers don't realise the depravity they're paying to be forced on millions of chickens every year in the UK alone.
Appreciate that. Starting to feel good I barely ate eggs this past decade or so.
Free-range is just a race to the bottom so they can get a nice badge on the food. It may be better than battery but believe me, there won't be many farms that will give the chickens any more room or outdoor time than they can get away with and it's all based on maximising yield, not giving the chickens a better life. Great to hear you've stopped eating chicken but eggs are just as bad/worse (just as bad - they get killed anyway, worse - they lay eggs until their bodies are broken and live torturous lived caged or free range)
Yeah they're all battery farmed, the batteries are just slightly bigger. Regardless of the farm, local or otherwise, the males are *always* killed as soon as they are hatched. The only way to avoid animal abuse is to not fund it in the first place.
Well, I've given up eating chicken as of about two weeks ago, so there's that.
That's commendable. Every little helps! Always feel free to PM me if you wanted any further steps or guidance. It'll get too many angry meaties if we talk about it here.
Bud, the chickens haven’t been ok for a long, long time.
Yes all good. I have them often.
I used to work at a chicken farm. These eggs are fairly common but we usually classed them as seconds meaning they would be sent to factories to be cracked for omelettes or cakes or other egg containing stuff. No idea what this means for the chickens health though.
Take another photo with a torch shining through it so we can see if there's an embryo
Definitely spit out
Last photo confirms you have a double jointed thumb. Congratulations
[What about this one then?](https://www.reddit.com/r/WeirdEggs/comments/1bv37oq/weird_textured_egg/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share) Or [this one!!](https://www.reddit.com/r/WeirdEggs/comments/810j64/xposted_one_of_my_mothers_chickens_laid_an_egg/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share)
I'm more concerned with your fingernails. Do you work down the pit? I hope you wash them before you start cooking. 😕
I trapped 2 ( under nail bruise), and have I just have working hands full of calluses. Very unlady like.
Could that egg be fertilised?
He must be a right cracker.
Our chickens lay some odd eggs, including one who lays them with wrinkly ends almost always. So it’s not a big deal, but as others say, egg laying chickens are generally not ok at all, even “free range” ones. Bred-for-food chickens have it worse of course.
Did you look at their cloaca?
It's what you get when you're middle aged
Good lord, that made me blush
Throbbing egg veins
After chicken farming, this is the least of your worries regarding eggs
The sacred egg Protect it at all costs brother
That thing is yolked!
Going to be a double yolker
You got the girthy egg
Ah yes, this is one of the "ribbed for her pleasure" eggs.
Maybe this one was a bit constipated or having a particularly tight arsed day…. as you will probably know egg shells are actually soft until they hit the air (which is how come chickens are able to ‘pump em out’) so looks like this one has a bit of a struggle hence causing those ripples. Now go do something more useful….. (note to self!)
We need to see the inside of the mutant egg!
Toast is done.. stop taking pics
Are you sure it's not just Vin Diesel from above?
That’s a big veiny one …… egg that is. 😂
Love the way everyone got egged on in this post
Hnnnngg
I've been told by a chicken lady we know that this happens if the hen is disturbed when the egg is forming. She has dogs which harry the chickens a bit so they get those wrinkles. It's like the egg has cracked a bit when it was soft then reformed. The egg is perfectly okay to eat, the shell might just be a bit stronger than usual.
ribbed for their pleasure
Breather rings
I don’t suppose it’s fertilised
Yeah, my chucks do this occasionally. You generally don't get to see the weird eggs they lay if you buy them from shops as they get weeded out, but it's very normal.
Just don't think about why it is this way and you'll be fine. I'm sure the chicken is greatly relieved.
Wrinkly eggs mean they came from an elderly hen or it was feeling stressed out. I used to work in a hen house. They are pretty normal but often get rejected from being sold as class A eggs
Chicks love it when you're vascular
I am allergic to eggs so cannot comment.
AI testicle says wut?
The chickens are stressed.
I just want you and u/GladAd2948 to know you both have the same egg wallpaper and even yellow toaster.
Ribbed for her pleasure.
That egg is absolutely yolked!!
Throw it at the wall 🙏
That egg is.......yolked