Archive for July 11th, 2009

Claire returns with an oddity

July 11, 2009

Claire laid her first egg after moulting today, but it wasn’t her typical brown and speckly type. It was something rather peculiar:

It’s an intact shell-less egg (63 g), but with a weird membranous tail hanging off it. The tail is sealed and fluid filled (presumably with more egg-white).
In our experience and from reading elsewhere, occasional [...]