Heather cracked her egg for breakfast and we were dismayed to find this little guy. This is why it's so important to mark eggs and keep tabs on a broody hen's nest. When a hen goes broody, she stops laying but other hens will come add to her nest and so there is no telling how long eggs have been there if you don't keep track. When I got around to checking her nest and deciding on marking eggs, she had 20+ in there and I decided to leave her with 12 of them. We knew there was a possibility of this, so had made sure to put the questionable eggs that I had gathered from her nest into cartons marked "OURS" (so they are not sold) where any stained, dirty, questionable eggs go. We are always careful to crack our eggs into a bowl individually instead of into a batter or pan.
This one is probably about 7 days along.
I think next time I go to remove eggs from a nest, I will candle them before deciding which ones to leave and take. :-( See how to candle an egg here.
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