It seems one of my layers had an artistic expression. While I've seen a bump of extra shell material on the end of an egg before, and even something resembling two concentric rings, in nine years of having laying hens I've never seen a swirl or spiral before. Pretty neat I think.
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"Study books and observe nature; if they do not agree, throw away the books." ~ William A. Albrecht
Save it! That is so cool. It makes me wonder if the egg rotates during formation.
And he said, "I want to live as an honest man, to get all I deserve, and to give all I can, and to love a young woman whom I don't understand. Your Highness, your ways are very strange."
It makes me wonder if the egg rotates during formation.
We have some Khaki Campbell ducks that when you look at the shell, you see a faint pattern of a spiral all the way up the shell. It isn't raised, but it's as if there is thinner shell and thicker shell bands.
So that suggests you may be right, at least in some birds.
It makes me wonder if the egg rotates during formation.
We have some Khaki Campbell ducks that when you look at the shell, you see a faint pattern of a spiral all the way up the shell. It isn't raised, but it's as if there is thinner shell and thicker shell bands.
So that suggests you may be right, at least in some birds.
I'm amazed at how eggs even form at all. This is just mind-blowing!
And he said, "I want to live as an honest man, to get all I deserve, and to give all I can, and to love a young woman whom I don't understand. Your Highness, your ways are very strange."
Or we might never have existed at all. Freaky. So we should cherish everything. Even this tiny ad: