Strange egg

[Malam]

Has anyone else found just a chick head and egg white in an egg when they've cracked it open? How the hell did the head grow on it's own? Did I open the egg too early, would it's body have carried on growing if I hadn't have cracked it open?

Edited by Malam on Sunday 7th March 19:47

[TheEnd]

murderer

[nipperS2K]

unless incubated eggs do not continue to grow, it just mean that one was fertilised and was partially formed.

[blueg33]

Malam said:

Has anyone else found just a chick head and egg white in an egg when they've cracked it open? How the hell did the head grow on it's own? Did I open the egg too early, would it's body have carried on growing if I hadn't have cracked it open?

Edited by Malam on Sunday 7th March 19:47

ewww yuk

[Steamer]

Eggs are strange full stop!

I have enough problems with the protein stringy bits let alone the occasional half baked head!! :yuk:

Trouble is I do love fried eggs.

I'm guessing this was a wild (free range proper farmyard) egg... not an 'out of the box' supermarket one?

...and no, I've never heard of this before but thanks for adding to my phobia interest.

[Malam]

Yes it was a free range egg. I don't understand how just a head could grow on it's own without a body though? If you could imagine a live chick and then cut it's head off, that's basically what I found in the egg. It had fur, beak, tongue, eyes..all the bits, I even thought I saw it's beak open when I first looked at it. Maybe it was alive and I killed it when I emptied him into the pan? I did drop him from quite a height.

Edited by Malam on Sunday 7th March 20:15

Edited by Malam on Sunday 7th March 20:15

[CaptainSlow]

What did it taste like? Chicken?

[funkyrobot]

Chinese lantern.

[Cara Van Man]

TheEnd said:

murderer

[Malam]

I didn't eat it, not sure if it's dead or not?

[Killer2005]

Malam said:

I didn't eat it, not sure if it's dead or not?

I would assume it is now

[robinhood21]

Give it some corn and see.

[Simpo Two]

Malam said:

Yes it was a free range egg. I don't understand how just a head could grow on it's own without a body though? If you could imagine a live chick and then cut it's head off, that's basically what I found in the egg.

It must have been a biological malfunction (lethal mutation) - it couldn't have been alive because it would have no heart or bodily organs. Either fertilised or parthenogenesis...

Hmm.

[Matt Evans]

Reminds me of this that someone allegedly found in their dinner:

[Shabs]

Matt Evans said:

Reminds me of this that someone allegedly found in their dinner:

In Hong Kong, all the good resturants do this - it proves it isn't some other domestic animal

[marshalla]

Shabs said:

In Hong Kong, all the good resturants do this - it proves it isn't some other domestic animal

Hmm - business opportunity ? Chicken head import/export.

[Brabus Jord]

PIC?

[Superhoop1904]

marshalla said:

Shabs said:

In Hong Kong, all the good resturants do this - it proves it isn't some other domestic animal

Hmm - business opportunity ? Chicken head import/export.

I think you might be getting a-head of yourself there......

[Neil H]

Why didn't you eat it?

You wasted a perfectly good foetus chicken head?

I'm appalled.

[Rocksteadyeddie]

You idiot. That's an expensive delicacy in Kentucky.