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the same lime and ai*e disobarsed into tin; oviduct lo 

 j^ether. Ciises have been known in ■niiicli three yolks 

 liave been fonnd in the same egg. 



Sometimes eggs of unusual shape are noticed; they 

 are j)ear-sl;i.i.ed, spherical, tlattencd. pointed at each 

 end or bent. Sometimes they contain projections 

 at some point on the surface. All of these conditions 

 result from accidental influences, and as a rule they do 

 not recur. 



An important malformatioo, or rather lack of devel- 

 opment, corsists in the production of eggs without 

 shells or ii\-ith soft shells. This condition usually re- 

 sults from the fact that the hen which produced the 

 egg laid it before the shell had time to develop or that 

 she was not supplied with the proper kind of nourish- 

 ment, and therefore could not produce the lime salts 

 necessary for the secretion of the shell.* 



Tlie treatment in the latter case consists in giving 

 fowls ground oyster shells, broken egg shells or pieces 

 of ground bone. 



3. EGG P.OT^Nl) 



Sometimes an eg.u Ihmimiics .aiiglit in I he oviduct 

 and cannot be exjH'lli-d. li may be that this c<uiies 

 from the fact that the t.'gg is too large or that in-itation 

 or inflammation has caused a swelling that obstructs 

 the passage, or that the cloaca is obstructed with a 

 mass of fa<'ces. In these cases, it is necessary to sup 



*See Inflammation of the Oviduct. 



