Eggs - Double Yolk, Spotless, Wind egg (pic)

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Check these out from our Coturnix....

Top left - typical size Coturnix egg from a hen laying 4+ months
Top right - double yolker from a new layer, about 2 weeks
Bottom left - spotless egg from a new layer, about 2 months
Bottom right - yolkless wind egg from a hen laying 4+ months

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edit: oopppsss, messed up the image, fixed now
 
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Double yolkers are common in coturnix, especially in young layers. I had quite a few that did when some of mine first started, though I don't get any now.

The white egg is most likely one that was laid too early. The spots are put on last, so if the hen lays the egg to soon it won't get those. Though I did have one hen that normally laid white eggs, so it could just be the way that hen is.

The wind egg is just that, a wind egg. I have no idea what causes them, but I get them from chickens, ducks, and quail. I believe I've even gotten some from the guineas
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Yeah....having them all in within a couple days and getting a pic of them together is half the fun of it to me.
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Here are some chicken eggs and their wind eggs together in the same photo - EEs and brown layers (Barred Rocks or Delawares, they're in the same coop, so not sure who laid the brown wind egg).:

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ETA: The flash washed out the blue of the egg on the left. It's a typical pale blue EE egg.
 
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The lack of pigmentation (spotless) can be due to the bird being under physical or psychological stress (like Shelley said, the hen laid to laid to early) or the lighting was improper (lack of exposure to UV rays).

Double yolked eggs is a cause of two eggs traveling down the oviduct in rapid succession moving as one and received the same shell, one egg was delayed in the oviduct and the second egg joined it, or stress occurred from interruption during laying.

Wind egg??? There are small eggs and dwarf eggs in my mind as of now. Are talking about empty eggs?

Small Eggs: Diet was low in protein, stress induced, Hen was young, temperature was too high in the breeding room, irritation or infection in the oviduct, salt was lacking in the diet
Dwarf Eggs: No ovum has passed down oviduct; egg contained only the albumen, adequate salt lacking in diet.
 
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you say there could be a lack of salt in the diet...is that something a person needs to supply their birds with ...like you would give rabbits a mineral salt block ?
 
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you say there could be a lack of salt in the diet...is that something a person needs to supply their birds with ...like you would give rabbits a mineral salt block ?

NEVER add salt to the diet as the birds can die from salt poisoning. Feeding the birds feed designated for gamebirds can solve the problem. There is a sufficient amount of salt in the feed.
 
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Good to hear from you. The standard egg and the wind egg both came from hens that were chicks of yours. But yeah, I can see a double yolker being good in a salad. We like regular shaped quail eggs in salad.
 
The spotless egg is cool looking.. The little eggs from coturnix's are so cool, always a different piece of art.

Something I didn't realize until earlier is that the spots wash off the eggs too, I was going to boil some eggs and I washed them with a rag first. The spots started coming off if I rubbed one area too long
 

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