What Is An Egg? 



rich uniform light 

 brown color ; eggs 

 marked (b) by their 

 perfect egg shape, 

 large size and dark 

 brown color ; eggs 

 marked (c) by their 

 long, thin form with 

 a tendency to a slight 

 ridge in the center; 

 eggs marked (d) by 

 their almost abnor- 

 mal roundness ; eggs 

 marked (e) by the 

 peculiar wart-like ex- 

 crescence on the small 

 end of each egg. 



Abnormal eggs are 

 due either to injury 

 to the fowl while the 

 egg is being formed 

 or to faulty nutrition. 

 The cuts represent 

 various types of ab- 

 normal eggs, (a) and 

 (1) are too long; 

 (m), (e) and (o) too 

 round; (k) is wedge 

 shaped; (o) has a de- 

 cided ridge at the 

 center; (f) and (q) 

 are flattened on one 

 side ; those marked 

 (j) are elliptical; (i) 

 are almost cylindrical 



IG. 11. FORMS OF EGGS. 



) is drawn out at the point; (p) are eggs with 

 rough, weak shells; (g) is as round as a marble and about the size of a 

 hickorynut; (h) is about the same size, but elongated; those marked (r) 

 represent the two extremes, a double-yolked egg and a diminutive but 

 perfect shaped egg. These small eggs are nearly always devoid of yolks. 

 It does not follow that a hen that lays a diminutive egg has laid similar 

 eggs previously or that she will do so again. Eggs marked (g) were all 

 laid by the Single Comb White Leghorn hen No. 85; those marked (h) 

 were laid by the Single Comb White Leghorn hen No. 82, the two 



