Tag: Chickens
The Curious Friendship Between A Pig And A Rooster
A lonely mama pig finds comfort In an unlikely friend.
In this Super Soul Original Short, farmer and filmmaker John Chester seeks a companion for Emma, a mama pig who nearly died giving birth to 13 piglets. When her piglets grew up and moved on to pastures of their own, Emma appeared to be lonely. John got curious: Could a rooster named Greasy fill the mother’s void?
The Big Egg
A Hen laid a giant egg with something pretty strange inside.
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“The big egg has another egg in it!”
That surprised reaction by a man when he cracked open an oversized egg from one of his hens has garnered plenty of skepticism. Whether the video is real or fake is uncertain, but the possibility of it happening is definitely plausible.
While extremely rare, a hen can lay an egg within an egg: It is caused by a counter-peristalsis contraction. This happens when an egg is forming in the hen’s oviduct and another oocyte is released too soon, causing a contraction that pushes the first egg back up.
Typically, a hen releases an oocyte (the egg cell that becomes the yolk) from her left ovary every 16 to 26 hours, according to Backyard Poultry Magazine. The oocyte then travels through the oviduct, where layers of membranes and albumen are added along the way.
However, if a second oocyte is released too early, the first oocyte (now in the hen’s uterus) gets sucked back inside by a contraction induced by the second egg. The counter-peristalsis contraction pushes it backwards to where it gets embedded inside egg number two.
Sleeping Baby Chick
Relax and Enjoy!
Being an adorable little chick is pretty hard work. Sometimes you just have to stop what you’re doing and take a nap.
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