Hello folks. I haven't been in the forum for some time, in fact I sort of forgot about it while I got involved with other projects, but I've recently run across an unusual (and rather disgusting) occurrence that I thought you all might be able to explain.

A friend of a friend had one of her hens lay a particularly gruesome egg-like thing a few days ago. There are clear and detailed photographs posted here:

jehannamamaÂs blog-journal

http://jehannamama.livejournal.com/173404.html

WARNING: These photos show something that looks like a combination of a tumor and several cooked eggs -- they are not pretty.

Several chicken lovers over at LiveJournal have been discussing it but I thought one of you may have had something similar happen.

Any information would be much appreciated. Once you get to my friend's journal entry, you can leave your thoughts there as an anonymous comment even if you don't belong to LiveJournal. Just mention that you are coming from GardenWeb. You can also, of course, post your thoughts to this entry and I will convey them to the interested parties in LJ-land :)

Over there I go by Moderately_Mad. Thanks in advance for taking a look and offering your opinions and/or experiences.

MM

Here is a link that might be useful: Weird egg-thing photos