We found another shell-less egg in a nest box. My youngest was helping so I held the fragile egg and a normal egg up to the light, and she took a picture, because it was neat to see the transparency of the odd egg. I say the egg was shell-less, but it did have a very thin layer of hardened material, then a thick membrane. Touching it caused a dent, but then gently rolling it in my fingers didn’t break the egg and made it look more like a fluid-filled latex balloon. I weighed it and recorded it in the book, then we gave it to the dogs. Griffin was quite surprised when he picked up the egg and left most of it behind! Missy didn’t mind cleaning up.

Every once in awhile we get a particularly nice colored egg. Sometimes they have well distributed dark spots, but this one was the first I’ve seen with white spots pleasingly spread across the surface. As the hens get back into the groove of laying, the colors even out, but this was a fun find.

Found an egg! Hurray! It has been almost exactly four months since we’ve had an egg laid in our coop. I was optimistic when I saw Magic do her squat a couple weeks ago. She may be the one who produced this egg! This summer when they are in full production I am definitely going to try some more egg preservation methods.