The chicken and the ring

[sarnig60]

Now here's a strange story that the teller swears is true!
Years ago, when he was little, his grandma kept chickens in the orchard. She also used to hang her washing out in the orchard. One day, whilst pegging out the washing, she lost her wedding ring. Everyone searched and searched but it was never found.
THREE YEARS later, whilst baking a cake, she cracked an egg and THERE, inside the egg, was a ring, all covered in verdigris. She cleaned it up and, sure enough, there were her initials inside the ring.
POSSIBLE OR NOT????

[paddywak]

Why not? There was a guy on TV the other week who lost his mobile phone while sailing. A few days later a fisherman recovered it from the gut of a cod he'd caught. the phone was useless but they traced the owner through the SIM card

[wolf63]

I don't think so. The egg comes from the 'reproductive bits' of the chicken. How would the ring have gotten in there in the first place?

If the ring was eaten it would have come out as chicken 5hit.

Do chickens live three years?

[sarnig60]

Well Wolf! I'm inclined to agree for the same biological reasons! The guy who tells the story is adamant that it is true. If the ring got into the egg, it must have laid in the orchard for 3 years before being eaten by the chicken, But is it scientifically possible for it to get from the chicken's stomach into the egg? I DON'T think so!!

[wildwood]

For a start, the chicken must have had an extraordinary big gape to be able to swallow a ring.
Besides, as wolf stated, physically impossible for a solid object to get from the gut to the oviduct.
A certain fable.

[slinkycat]

Totally agree that this couldn't happen, its anatomically impossible.
However, just wanted to comment on what wildwood said about having a big gape, I gave my chickens a few large grapes the other day, usually I halve them, but this time I didn't, and to my horror they necked them back whole, had visions of performing the Heimlich manouvre on 5 choking chickens!
So I guess it is possible that a chicken could swallow a ring!

[ParkChoi]

i have a similar story except the ring was found in the chickens' gut. i actually saw the ring in the gut because i killed and cleaned the chicken.

[ParkChoi]

unless the fowl was not getting enough calcium and the egg shell was very soft, and the ring somehow was forced into the egg. i've seen eggs with their shells so soft, you could see through them!