A couple of weeks ago when we processed the chickens, Abram and I got to see firsthand developing egg yolks inside of a few chickens. As in humans, they were inside the body cavity and ranged from ones that would likely have been laid that day (actually in the cloaca), progressively smaller to very tiny ones ones just a few millimeters across. We brought them in for the boys to see and even added a few yolks to some scrambled eggs the next day. They were encased in a really tough sac - maybe what becomes the inner lining of the egg when it has a shell?
Our garden spider who had been living outside the laundry door all summer is gone. I checked on her Friday, and she was fine but was nowhere to be found Saturday, Sunday, or today. In all she has left us 3 egg sacs full of thousands of tiny, baby spiders. Hopefully a few will stay around here next spring just as a few of Charlotte's offspring stayed with Wilber.
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