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Post by oxankle2 on Apr 12, 2019 17:53:40 GMT
Neighbor has chickens; I by feed, he brings me eggs.
This morning he carried over a nest of straw with some meaty-looking things in it.
One was as large as a bantam egg, egg-shaped, dull grey, fleshy. There were perhaps six or seven more abut the size of butter beans, shaped like the larger one.
I cut open the large one. It appeared to have three or four divisions in it as though the outer fleshy covering had just enclosed sevral of the smaller ones, though none of these divisions was as small as those several loose in the nest.
One of the divisions has a grainy, waxy materiel in it, another seemed to have twisted fleshy material of some sort--nothing I have ever seen before. colors a pinkish grey.
This was found in a nest with three eggs, so it was put there this morning.
Any of you ever seen anything like this???
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2019 18:00:56 GMT
Look up lash eggs and see if that fits.
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Post by feather on Apr 12, 2019 18:25:37 GMT
@redfish, you are incredibly smart. We should probably have you on retainer for animal needs and herbal healing.  |
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Post by feather on Apr 12, 2019 19:08:55 GMT
I had to look up lash egg. I was disgusted beyond belief. Then I was thinking about one of my relatives, she had a mass near her ovary. She didn't expel it like a lash egg, but she had it removed. It was a teratoma. It's kind of like a lash egg stuck in the body. It all gives me the heebee jeebees, if that is a thing.
You love learning. I get that.
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Post by Mari-in-IN on Apr 12, 2019 19:14:36 GMT
In my almost 10 years of raising chickens I have seen a couple of those... I never knew what they were til now @redfish-thanks!
They are indeed pretty gnarly and geeeroooss!
~Mari
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Post by Mari-in-IN on Apr 12, 2019 21:27:48 GMT
feather , I was thinking more along the lines of I'm not an expert. The few times in my life I got to thinking I knew something, life got showing me it just weren't so.  Well, you did a grand job in regards to identifying that "partial skull" I found - remember?!?! Oh my gosh that was soooo funny! You knew, though! ~Mari |
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Post by feather on Apr 12, 2019 22:24:29 GMT
feather , I was thinking more along the lines of I'm not an expert. The few times in my life I got to thinking I knew something, life got showing me it just weren't so. Well, you did a grand job in regards to identifying that "partial skull" I found - remember?!?! Oh my gosh that was soooo funny! You knew, though! ~Mari Mari, humility is such a very important quality. It would be criminal of us to beat the humility out of redfish. A very wise woman said, the more we know the more we know we don't know anything. |
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Post by mzgarden on Apr 13, 2019 0:32:51 GMT
Wow, glad you asked oxankle2 Thanks to @redfish for answering. Never heard of it, looked it up to see some pics (almost wish I hadn't). Learned something new. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2019 3:42:22 GMT
We've had lash eggs here from time to time, usually when the hen house is overcrowded with too many residents.
Scary and yucky things they are!
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Post by ceresone on Apr 13, 2019 20:30:34 GMT
If they are that disgusting, I don't want to look them up, but I am curious what a "lash" is,
OK, I had to look it up. Hope the never see one.
I did have a Samoyed female pass a small tumor, about quarter size once, but not that disgusting!
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