What the ?!?!?!

Question, where do rubber chickens come from?  Answer, from rubber eggs, of course.  Ah, of course.  Wait. What?  A rubber egg?  What the heck is that?  Well it turns out that is what you call it when a chicken lays an egg without a shell. 

Right about now, if you are like me, the questions just keep coming.  How does a chicken lay an egg without a shell?  Is this even normal?  Do I have a defective chicken?  What do I do with a shell-less egg?

It turns out, this is not uncommon for birds that are just beginning to lay eggs.  Today we are up to five hens laying, so production is growing and we are probably lucky this is the first of these we have seen.  As to how it’s done, I am not sure.  As to what to do with the egg, some say you can hard boil it and eat it.  While I am sure it has been done before, it is gross enough that I plan on tossing it and hoping for 5 with shells tomorrow.

My last question regards the relative ease of passing a rubber egg compared to a regular egg.  Tragically, I may never know the answer.

Andy