As legends go, the ancient ones have modern legends beat to shreds.
Today, we hear swallowing Pop Rocks will kill you, Mr. Rogers was a SEAL, and you can balance a broom on the equinox.
By comparison, in ancient times, to name one example, the legendary “cockatrice,” a small serpent, was empowered with the ability to kill with a single look or exhalation. Said to be hatched by reptiles from eggs laid by roosters, the cockatrice was deadly to all save one species: weasels.
That’s a cool legend. We can’t top that today, but I do have a cock’s egg for you.
Cock‘s eggs, also called wind eggs, and, less elegantly, fart eggs, are formed (provided you have questions about the above story) when a fragment of the hen’s reproductive tissue becomes enveloped in albumen, membrane, and shell, and, finally, pops out her cackleberry chute. They are typically yolk-less.
This is the first one I’ve seen.
It’s very cute.
. . . Or is it?
top image credit eaudrey.com
I have never heard of that?
First for me as well!
I ‘ve never heard of that !!
I’ve never heard of it either but HOW NEAT!
Thanks for sharing and showing us.
Awwww… it is so cute!
Last week we had an egg like that, it was a very small one. But what we call a wind egg is an egg only covered in the tough membrane.
Well, that puts a spooky spin on our favorite surprise eggs!
Got my first cock egg….cock wind egg……very small…….new pullets … interesting