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At least your chickens will enjoy it! It could be blossom end rot, which can be caused by calcium deficiency and exacerbated by an erratic watering schedule. I've not encountered it myself yet, but the picture looks similar to the ones I've seen.
I was actually wondering if was drought/watering related.
We had some tomatoes last year that got hard and brown on the tip of the fruit (hey, it is a fruit). It looked properly rotten instead of hard, so that threw me off a bit