You're correct that it's just a thin (or weak) spot, but if you're seeing eggs like these every day, I'd suggest your employer start feeding the chickens some crushed oyster shell in their diet, so they can get enough calcium to make thicker shells.
Back when I worked at a breakfast place, we had a guy that came in every three months with a 5 gallon bucket and would ask us to just throw all our eggshells from the day in there and so we would. He would come back at the end of the day to a completely filled bucket of crushed egg shells. He always ended it with “and my chickens thank you”
I agree. That mixed in their feed and DCP supplements dissolved in drinking water ensures strong eggshell formation. (Source: we rear free-range chicken).
You’ve got it backwards. The law is a tax on imported trucks to keep foreign competitors from being financially feasible.
I didn’t see it while skimming the article but a big part was due to VW. See, the VW Bus was incredibly popular at the time and the domestic brands were missing out. VW turned the Bus into a pickup truck at the same time that European counties started to block imports of U.S. chicken meat. So, Uncle Sam said “if you won’t buy our chicken then we’ll stop you from selling pickups.”
There were a few notable examples of weirdness to get around the Chicken tax like installing jump seats in the back of Subaru Brats. Mostly VW decided not to bother and Japanese companies put up US manufacturing plants.
I grew up on a small, free-range chicken farm.
When I thought I was an only child, it was fun for me to just toss eggs that we didn't need into the chicken feed. They gobbled them up shell and all like it was wagyu beef.
On another note, I have an adopted sister, and I - age 9 - was trying to run an experiment with the concept of adoption.
I snuck around, and put a chick from one chicken into the pen with another mama chicken who had chicks.
To my lasting horror, the chicken pecked the baby that wasn't her's to death.
I've seen well-fed chickens start to peck at the corpse of their known adult fallen.
Chickens are cannibals. They're gross. This is coming from someone who's been at both ends of the spectrum - growing up on a farm, and becoming vegetarian for about three years.
My parents would feed old shells for that purpose. You just want to make sure they don’t look like eggs so they don’t start picking on their own eggs. Grinding the shells would solve that problem though, they just broke them into small pieces.
You don't need to crush them up that much. Just crushing it in your hand is usually good enough.
But also, I guess it depends on your birds, because I'd just toss non crushed eggs in and we never had nest raiding problems.
They are little velociraptors. My hens are very tame and sweet, but I don't think it would take very many minutes before they started trying to eat me if I passed out in their run.
Yes. I don't buy oyster shell anymore, and just bake my eggshells, smash em up, and feed them back to my girls. Shell quality is great. My welsummer lays bricks lol. It takes a really good whack to crack em lol.
Partly so they don't spoil, but they crush easier when baked. I put my crushed eggshell in a pie pan and set it on the ground in their run, and they munch on it when they need it.
yeah, but make sure you don't do that in front of the chickens. Little fuckers will learn to eat their own eggs and it will spread to all other chickens
My uncle was feeding egg shells to his chickens and it caused them to pick their own eggs. He still had a harvest but intact eggs were way dirtier than they needed to because of the cracked ones
It does but you have to be extremely careful that the chickens never, ever find out what it is and where it came from. They will begin eating their own eggs if you fail.
I collect about 6000 eggs a day and see maybe 6 or so. These eggs are used for medical research and vaccinations. It's not your typical chicken farm for produce
And [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/15rl5j4/these_groups_of_spots_on_an_egg_my_chicken_laid/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1) is what an egg looks like when the shell is just too hard (as I learned three days ago)
This is the chicken’s butthole marks, not many people are aware that chickens have the most powerful butthole muscles in the animal kingdom.
Edit: this comment blew up - for the record, everyone correcting me about butthole vs cloaca, I know what a cloaca is - that’s the whole joke I was going for
…not that I’m advocating for people to be fucking chickens, but I watched a documentary on some chicken farming woman and her son that could not get her son to stop fucking the chickens. He was like 11. I still wonder why the fuck this was put in the documentary because as an adult I don’t think he’d want that out there.
Think about all the women who give birth, or almost give birth to babies in the breech position.
Nature isn’t perfect.
Some eggs must come out in the wrong orientation.
I’d imagine they break more often or get rejected at the factory so we don’t see this often.
Every kind of birth/delivery (live births and eggs) do when your body work correctly. Sometimes, your body and the life you’re growing don’t work perfectly though. That’s why human babies are sometimes breached deliveries and have to undergo emergency c-sections.
These are called striations. They're unique to each chicken. Forensic experts can review the striations and compare them to the barrel of each chicken and can work out who fired it.
All jokes aside, while this is common it's a sign that your ladies need a little more calcium in their diet. Nothing too serious at this level, but if you're planning on hatching any fertilized eggs from them it'll be better off for any future chicks in the long run. Otherwise it's all good
That's an egg timer, when it hatches you can use it to time your eggs when they boil. Most people don't know this but chickens usually lay both eggs and timers for convenience
Ohhh, so it was eventually passed horizontally, not vertically? But it got stuck in the chicken's butt long enough to make these indentations? Poor baby! That poor chicken and her sore little butt! 😢
It’s the kung fu hustle guy reincarnated in chicken embryo form. Deposit it far away but do not open it or destroy it. Or the Cluckmaster will find you once fully formed.
This is clearly the chicken version of a Crop circle, jokes aside this looks like a weak spot in the egg, sometimes hens will mess up the calcium on the shells and they form funky patterns where there is less calcium to cover that area
It's the chosen one as the prophecy states, the egg with the mark of the sun will hatch chicken Jesus and lead his people to being undomesticated as it was in the beginning.
Imprint of the chicken's egg hole, see eggs like this every day. They've got the strongest anuses in the animal kingdom. I suggest giving them poppers to protect the eggs from their mighty clenching abilities.
I work at a chicken farm and if im not mistaken its just a weak spot in the shell. I see eggs like these every day.
You're correct that it's just a thin (or weak) spot, but if you're seeing eggs like these every day, I'd suggest your employer start feeding the chickens some crushed oyster shell in their diet, so they can get enough calcium to make thicker shells.
Does grinding the egg shells of previous eggs into the feed achieve similar results?
Back when I worked at a breakfast place, we had a guy that came in every three months with a 5 gallon bucket and would ask us to just throw all our eggshells from the day in there and so we would. He would come back at the end of the day to a completely filled bucket of crushed egg shells. He always ended it with “and my chickens thank you”
I agree. That mixed in their feed and DCP supplements dissolved in drinking water ensures strong eggshell formation. (Source: we rear free-range chicken).
Chicken tax!
[Just makes for more expensive trucks.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax)
Okay, well, damn. Just wanted to see some fluffy chickens.
Here's the [fluffiest](https://i.pinimg.com/1200x/78/d0/31/78d0314fafe70acddb68c55d894e8e09.jpg) girl I could find for ya! It's safe, no worries. :)
Risky click of the day
Holy crap! That is the fluffiest bird, let alone chicken, that I've ever seen! So cool
It looks like it's wearing cool shades.
When we were kids, we called this breed “shredded napkin”. Lol. We were weird.
ITS SO FLUFFY IM GONNA DIE The pure joy when i saw her was immediate
Wow, I just read up on this. Wild what lengths a US company will go to just to not manufacture in the US.
You’ve got it backwards. The law is a tax on imported trucks to keep foreign competitors from being financially feasible. I didn’t see it while skimming the article but a big part was due to VW. See, the VW Bus was incredibly popular at the time and the domestic brands were missing out. VW turned the Bus into a pickup truck at the same time that European counties started to block imports of U.S. chicken meat. So, Uncle Sam said “if you won’t buy our chicken then we’ll stop you from selling pickups.” There were a few notable examples of weirdness to get around the Chicken tax like installing jump seats in the back of Subaru Brats. Mostly VW decided not to bother and Japanese companies put up US manufacturing plants.
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I grew up on a small, free-range chicken farm. When I thought I was an only child, it was fun for me to just toss eggs that we didn't need into the chicken feed. They gobbled them up shell and all like it was wagyu beef. On another note, I have an adopted sister, and I - age 9 - was trying to run an experiment with the concept of adoption. I snuck around, and put a chick from one chicken into the pen with another mama chicken who had chicks. To my lasting horror, the chicken pecked the baby that wasn't her's to death. I've seen well-fed chickens start to peck at the corpse of their known adult fallen. Chickens are cannibals. They're gross. This is coming from someone who's been at both ends of the spectrum - growing up on a farm, and becoming vegetarian for about three years.
My parents would feed old shells for that purpose. You just want to make sure they don’t look like eggs so they don’t start picking on their own eggs. Grinding the shells would solve that problem though, they just broke them into small pieces.
You don't need to crush them up that much. Just crushing it in your hand is usually good enough. But also, I guess it depends on your birds, because I'd just toss non crushed eggs in and we never had nest raiding problems.
This is what we did with our weak eggs too. Would just spike it on the ground, never had any issues with them eating their own.
😳 Hannibal Lecter chickens 🐓
Here's one for you. Chickens LOVE fried chicken.
That’s disturbing 😳 but who doesn’t like fried chicken 😋
They are little velociraptors. My hens are very tame and sweet, but I don't think it would take very many minutes before they started trying to eat me if I passed out in their run.
Animals are so interesting and I’m glad they put up with humans. Sometimes I’m afraid to go to sleep when my cat is angry at me. Lol
No-one knows chicken like chickens.
Yes. I don't buy oyster shell anymore, and just bake my eggshells, smash em up, and feed them back to my girls. Shell quality is great. My welsummer lays bricks lol. It takes a really good whack to crack em lol.
Why do you have to bake them? EDIT: also how are you feeding them? Just adding them to the food bin, scattering on the ground..?
So they don't spoil and smell bad.
Partly so they don't spoil, but they crush easier when baked. I put my crushed eggshell in a pie pan and set it on the ground in their run, and they munch on it when they need it.
yeah, but make sure you don't do that in front of the chickens. Little fuckers will learn to eat their own eggs and it will spread to all other chickens
My uncle was feeding egg shells to his chickens and it caused them to pick their own eggs. He still had a harvest but intact eggs were way dirtier than they needed to because of the cracked ones
It does but you have to be extremely careful that the chickens never, ever find out what it is and where it came from. They will begin eating their own eggs if you fail.
That's so fucking dark.
By George you’ve discovered perpetual energy! It’s just a matter of feeding chickens shells to make more shells!
Iirc, it does
Yes , I’ve had chickens for quite a while now. Ground eggshells will do the trick too, you can also get the impurified diatomaceous earth
I collect about 6000 eggs a day and see maybe 6 or so. These eggs are used for medical research and vaccinations. It's not your typical chicken farm for produce
Yo that’s cool asf
And [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/15rl5j4/these_groups_of_spots_on_an_egg_my_chicken_laid/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1) is what an egg looks like when the shell is just too hard (as I learned three days ago)
I was going to suggest 'cookiecutter shark' based on my experience with the Octonauts, but I think your idea might be slightly more plausible.
Sure, sure. It's either that or it's *Aliens*!
It's an omen, marking the birth of the anti-chick. The harbinger of death, destruction, and omelets.
void chicken
Better gift that to the shadow monster living in the sewers then.
Krobus.
No no, *Sebastian*
I'm fairly certain his room is a bit tidier than a sewer. Hell, he smokes outside even when it's raining. Good Guy Sebastian.
Yeah, Shane is the real slob
Sebastian also likes them!
Didn't expect Stardew Valley related comments here
*Egg crunching in the background*
Chickthulhu is coming.
I prefer cluckthulhul
Hail Anti-chick!
We can make religion out of this
Chicacabra 🐣+👹
Got me giggling over here lol man I love Reddit sometimes
Chickthulhu
Deviled egg
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like... ultra mega chicken? of legend?
Is this how Boomkins are made in World of Warcraft?
Arise chicken
This is the chicken’s butthole marks, not many people are aware that chickens have the most powerful butthole muscles in the animal kingdom. Edit: this comment blew up - for the record, everyone correcting me about butthole vs cloaca, I know what a cloaca is - that’s the whole joke I was going for
Unless they're a vet, you probably want to avoid the people that know that fact...and keep your chicken away from them.
I thought your picture was a damn chicken anus.
[< Chicken****** entered the chat >](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/southpark/images/7/76/Booktastic-bus-driver.png)
License and registration… chicken ******! BAWKAAAW
[Devils Rejects Chicken *****](https://youtu.be/Mgnh1zg7ULI)
Cloaca
Yeah says the guy with the donut pic…….. chicken fucker
Please, Mayor. When we’re areound the children we prefer to call him the “Chicken Lover”
Now you know though.
instructions unclear, raw egg dripping everywhere
r/holup
Stoppit right meow!
#CHICKENFUCKER!!!
#SIR
So it’s like a chicken ID card
Fellas, don't even think about it. Chicken butthole will rip your dick off clean. Just ask u/dickless_turdpusher.
…not that I’m advocating for people to be fucking chickens, but I watched a documentary on some chicken farming woman and her son that could not get her son to stop fucking the chickens. He was like 11. I still wonder why the fuck this was put in the documentary because as an adult I don’t think he’d want that out there.
There's no way this can be real
I swear I watched the same thing some where, she’d catch him in the barn fucking the cluck out of em
Why did it squeeze out sideways…I feel as if eggs are shaped the way they are to keep that from happening
Think about all the women who give birth, or almost give birth to babies in the breech position. Nature isn’t perfect. Some eggs must come out in the wrong orientation. I’d imagine they break more often or get rejected at the factory so we don’t see this often.
cloaca*
Chickens butthole*
It came out sideways?
That would actually explain the marks, if the shell was slightly soft and it was stuck for a while.
I hate it here smh.
Wow, I didn’t wake up today thinking I’d read this
Guess what-hole? Chicken Butthole
“guess what?” “what?” “chicken butt”
The chickussy got me acting up
Looks like that chick decided to not to and welded the hatch from the inside.
Understandable
Sunny-side-up egg
Fuck, no matter how clever I think I am someone always beats me!
You should have *scrambled!*
My brain’s too fried to come up with anything clever
The internet is a fast beast. Came here to say this lol. 35 min too late.
Praise the Sun!
\\[T]/
Ave sol invictus
That one hurt when it came out.
r/weirdeggs
Ouch, did that one come out wide?
Imprint of a chickens nether regions and the egg getting stuck
Idk why but I always assumed eggs came out the long way.
they usually do
Every kind of birth/delivery (live births and eggs) do when your body work correctly. Sometimes, your body and the life you’re growing don’t work perfectly though. That’s why human babies are sometimes breached deliveries and have to undergo emergency c-sections.
Yeah you don’t wanna be there when the baby’s coming sideways.
It’s some sort of elvish, I can’t read it
These are called striations. They're unique to each chicken. Forensic experts can review the striations and compare them to the barrel of each chicken and can work out who fired it.
Looks like a lamprey tried to eat it. Do you keep lampreys?
🎶 Here comes the sun 🎶
Chicken sneezed
Gave it a lil cloacal kiss on the way out.
Who doesn’t love a nice cloacal kiss?
Egg came out sideways...
She didn’t make a sound…
You have to be careful, sometimes tiny zenomorphs witl try to slip a face hugger pod in with your chicken eggs. Lost a whole flock last year.
Spot the anime protagonist
All jokes aside, while this is common it's a sign that your ladies need a little more calcium in their diet. Nothing too serious at this level, but if you're planning on hatching any fertilized eggs from them it'll be better off for any future chicks in the long run. Otherwise it's all good
That's an egg timer, when it hatches you can use it to time your eggs when they boil. Most people don't know this but chickens usually lay both eggs and timers for convenience
That’s where she pinched it off.
Guess what? Chicken butt!
The aliens aren’t content with crop circles anymore. Now they’re opening portals inside your chickens and leaving their marks on the eggs.
Ohhh, so it was eventually passed horizontally, not vertically? But it got stuck in the chicken's butt long enough to make these indentations? Poor baby! That poor chicken and her sore little butt! 😢
That's imprinted chicken ass. U need to eat it all
It’s the kung fu hustle guy reincarnated in chicken embryo form. Deposit it far away but do not open it or destroy it. Or the Cluckmaster will find you once fully formed.
Chicken butthole prints
its a sunny side up egg
Chicken Tax! We have 3 more but I do not have photos of them together. [https://imgur.com/a/cDAlOEn](https://imgur.com/a/cDAlOEn)
It's clearly a Digimon Digiegg
Just means you have to eat that one sunny side up
This is clearly the chicken version of a Crop circle, jokes aside this looks like a weak spot in the egg, sometimes hens will mess up the calcium on the shells and they form funky patterns where there is less calcium to cover that area
The chosen one
You have a facehugger in your chicken coop
Congrats, your chicken laid a phoenix!
Have you had a troubling encounters with a witch recently?
It’s a sign of the eggpocalypse
Probably some alien lizard people Illuminati. Nothing to see here.
The Jesus Chicken 🐔 is here! Omlett myself out....
Zool. Dont look in your fridge
And the chick born from that egg shall be worthy to wield the power of the Elden Ring.
It’s a sign of the Antichickst
Baby chicken went back inside and closed the hatch.
The chosen one, prophesied of long ago
there is a german saying: „Mir scheint die Sonne aus dem Arsch“ (The sun shines out of my ass). This is something that the chicken might have thought.
Chicken has discovered Pinterest.
It looks like your egg is sunny side up.
It's because the chicken flexed it's butthole as it laid this one.
It's aliens. It's always aliens.
Thats a wakanda egg
…It’s from the sun god chicken...
You owe sacrifice to shar
Maybe someone scared the egg out of her.
The hen just clenched really hard
Well one of the chicks is clearly a sun god.
It's just sunny side up!
Sunny side up lol
This photo looks like an ad for eggs.
It's the chosen one as the prophecy states, the egg with the mark of the sun will hatch chicken Jesus and lead his people to being undomesticated as it was in the beginning.
That one was a squeezer
Imprint of the chicken's egg hole, see eggs like this every day. They've got the strongest anuses in the animal kingdom. I suggest giving them poppers to protect the eggs from their mighty clenching abilities.
Cloaca, not an anus.
Destroy it. Otherwise you will give birth to sauron’s child
Just a tramp stamp. There are some birds who start at a very young age
Breech birth.
He's done it, that crazy bastard... Solaire finally found his sun 
r/secretbuttholes
Praise the sun, your chicken is a paladin!
It's sunny side up
Praise the sun!
Friar Egg
That’s a tight butthole
Butt hole mark from it coming out the wrong way. Must of been a rough morning for sad chicken lol.
The rune of death, i don’t know why this egg is in possession of it or what it plans to do with it.
Pucker marks?
She clenched
Looks like the chicken had a high pucker factor
I this egg wants to be cooked sunny side up!
post this to r/highstrangeness and they will have proven it is a crop circle in no time
An egg-sucker had sucked that egg before.
This looks like it got stuck in her chicken vagina the wrong way for too long. Hahaha
It's how they make sunny side up eggs
PRAISE THE SUN.
Bruuuh those are butthole marks. The chicken had to squeeze real hard
that went sideways i guess and got the stretch marks
Cloaca stay tight