An egg within an egg? Double-shelled egg, different colors!

[PirateGirl]

I was just reading about this last night in a book (yes, some people still read books), I learned that the brown coating is kinda the last thing that goes on an egg after it's formed, so it's not entirely surprising that the inner egg is white. If you look at the inside of a brown eggshell it will also be white. Also blue eggs are blue through and through, as are white eggs. An olive egg is when the brown coating gets applied over a blue egg (instead of a white one). Thanks for sharing your pics!

 

[chickencheeper]

My cockerel just crowed and i crowed back. Now he's super confused.

Lol, I can do a really good rooster crow but I have all hens and if I do it near them they just look at me weirdly

 

[21hens-incharge]

I have read of such finds. It was determined the brown egg hatched and the green ended up shuffled around getting shoved inside.

That makes me a party pooper.

 

[chickencheeper]

My broody got off her hatchlings and the couple remaining eggs for a moment today and I happened to be around. I peeked in her nest and found the oddest thing I’ve seen in my 3+ years of chickening: this bluish-greenish egg encased in a brown egg shell. It was not viable—I checked for peeps—so I took it to photograph it and ask around. Have any of you ever seen such a thing? How did it happen? I have blue layers, brown lagers, and what are supposed to be Olive Eggers, though their eggs are a pale bluish-green. I’m thinking of opening it to see what developed. Just curious whether others have seen such a double-shelled egg.

As you can probably tell, there is a membrane from the brown egg surrounding the bluish egg. I pulled some of the brown egg shell off to see if there was a pip or anything on the bluish egg, but didn’t see any pip. Then I wanted to photograph it before I took all the brown off.

So was the egg broken when you
Found it? If it wasn’t then @21hens-incharge is probably correct

 

[MaryZoe]

It looks like a very underdeveloped chick—maybe made it 10-12 days? There is still fresh looking bloodl, but it was definitely already dead. No movement at all.

 

[MaryZoe]

No—definitely intact. Not even a pip.

 

[chickencheeper]

No—definitely intact. Not even a pip.

I’m referring to the brown shelled egg- was it broken like in the pictures when you found it ?

 

[MaryZoe]

There’s the little fella out of his eggs.

 

[MaryZoe]

The problem with that is that the brown membrane was completely surrounding the bluish egg. I had to peel it off.

 

[chickencheeper]

There’s the little fella out of his eggs.

Even weeks after at a rooster fertilizes an egg the hen will still lay fertilized eggs so what @21hens-incharge said would make sense coupled with the fact that it was underdeveloped