Chicken owner in Yomitan is surprised to find egg in capsule form

Chicken owner in Yomitan is surprised to find egg in capsule form

Shunichi Okuhara, the discoverer, holding the egg


 

July 5, 2018 Ryukyu Shimpo

 

Seventy-one-year-old Syunichi Okuhara from Furugen in Yomitan village found out that his hen had layed a capsule-looking egg.

The form is like a “gacha-gacha,” the capsules in which small toys are packed, with a straight line in the middle of the egg shell.

Okuhara widened his eyes, saying, “I’ve seen 5000 eggs before but this is the first time I’ve seen one like this.”

 

He found the “gacha-gacha egg” at noon on June 12. He first thought, “Someone put in a toy as a joke.”

 

However, the chicken cage was locked and there was no sign of a break-in from outside.

The “gacha-gacha egg” with a line in the middle of the egg shell

The egg also felt like a normal egg.

 

Teruo Kinjo, a 54-year-old animal doctor at the Okinawa Zoo and Museum, was also surprised to see the egg, saying, “I’ve never seen an egg like this.

I think it’s rare.” He guesses that the line in the middle is a dent on the egg shell, commenting “perhaps there was some irregular thing that happened when the egg shell was being formed.”

 

(English translation by T&CT and Sayaka Sakuma)

 

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