Jennifer Hall had been raising chickens for three years in her backyard farm in Texas and would either sell or give some of the eggs to her elderly neighbours.
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| Egg With Penny In The Yolk |
One time in December 2023 she gave them half a dozen eggs before leaving town for a few days, but when she returned they approached her and said that one of the eggs had an (American one-cent coin) 'penny' inside it.
Ms Hall said she was "shocked" and surprised but they then showed her the partially cooked egg inside a bowl with the penny in egg in the bowl. "At first I thought it was a joke and I was laughing about it, joking about how my chickens are laying money eggs," but there was an imprint of the coin in the membrane lining on the inside of the eggshell.
"The lady said, 'I know it's hard to believe but if you look right here', and she pointed to the inside of the egg, 'you can see the imprint where the membrane formed around the penny'. Sure enough, the impression was right there. They said they're going to clean the penny off and keep it with them because it's got to be lucky."
However once the story was reported, chicken experts from all over the place poo-pooed the story ... one, Jason Nethercott from Talking Hens, Australia, said "This one looks like a hoax as a penny would have to be inserted into the Oviduct before the shell was formed, there is no way that this could happen without surgery."
But alternatively, according to Backyard Poultry, a website magazine published by poultry experts, "you can have exceptionally weird things found in eggs. When a hen lays an egg, her vent is exposed to the environment. Sometimes things in that environment can attach to the moist tissue, and these foreign objects, such as small pebbles, feathers, and other debris in the nest, can make their way back up the oviduct."
After further on-line discussions, Nethercott retracted a little and said that "nothing is impossible" although it's "very, very unlikely" he concluded.
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| Double Eggs Are Not Uncommon. |
According to Backyard Poultry unusual finds, such as eggs inside eggs are not unknown, and this event occurs whenever "the hen is in the process of forming an egg in her oviduct. A second oocyte, the ovum that becomes the yolk of an egg, is released by the ovary before the first egg has completely travelled through the oviduct and been laid." .... if a counter-peristalsis contraction occurs, it forces the first oocyte to reverse its course and joins with the second.
I guess you pays your penny and makes your choice .....
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