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[dretd]

Nope it was laying on its side. Some of the UK breeders on FB said they see this once in a while, and just assume it is an uneven application of color during egg formation. The line is very striking though!

Well isn't this interesting. Are you going to crack the egg to look at the colors of the interior?

Last week I got an egg that had a nickel-sized oddity: the spot that was just off-set on one end was a slightly different color than the remainder of the shell and had a very thin layer of shell on top. The edges were very sharply defined where it met up with the rest of the shell. The only thing I could think of was that a piece of mucus or other material touched the shell as the egg was passing along and is spread out to cover the area and prevented the shell from adhering to underlying shell so there was a very thin weak spot.

Is the shell thicker or shinier where the darker color is present? If you wet the egg, does the color difference go away or become harder to see?

It almost looks like the colored part has a glossy finish and the 'normal' colored has a matte finish. How interesting.

 

[stake]

Found this egg in the run about two weeks ago, anyone seen an oddity like this? I understand finding half colored brown eggs since the color is "painted on," but how do you get a half colored (or at least more colored) blue egg?



I had

I had my pooch lick a brown egg and there was a color change where the egg was licked,,,,,maybe something similar....my two cents

 

[lonnyandrinda]

I had my pooch lick a brown egg and there was a color change where the egg was licked,,,,,maybe something similar....my two cents

Well brown eggs are colored by a "painting on" type process just before the egg is laid. So the brown coating can be scratched or rubbed off. Blue eggs are different, the shell color is blue all the way through.

Well isn't this interesting. Are you going to crack the egg to look at the colors of the interior?

Last week I got an egg that had a nickel-sized oddity: the spot that was just off-set on one end was a slightly different color than the remainder of the shell and had a very thin layer of shell on top. The edges were very sharply defined where it met up with the rest of the shell. The only thing I could think of was that a piece of mucus or other material touched the shell as the egg was passing along and is spread out to cover the area and prevented the shell from adhering to underlying shell so there was a very thin weak spot.

Is the shell thicker or shinier where the darker color is present? If you wet the egg, does the color difference go away or become harder to see?

It almost looks like the colored part has a glossy finish and the 'normal' colored has a matte finish. How interesting.

Interesting things I didn't think to test. I will go pull that egg off the egg rack and try these things. Going to crack it open, too, and see if the difference carries through to the inside.

 

[KPenley]

It kind of looks like it got stuck in a certain phase of the egg building process, but it is really cool looking!

 

[wlhtx]

I think you dyed it in food coloring and are trying to fool all of us...

It does look like an Easter egg that you held one end in the dye too long. It's really neat how the line between the two colors is so distinct.

 

[lonnyandrinda]

I think you dyed it in food coloring and are trying to fool all of us...

It does look like an Easter egg that you held one end in the dye too long. It's really neat how the line between the two colors is so distinct.

Oh yes, and then I rolled it in poo to disguise that fact that one end was dyed- LOL!!!!!! No, it's real!

 

[wlhtx]

Oh yes, and then I rolled it in poo to disguise that fact that one end was dyed-  LOL!!!!!! No, it's real!

Well, you know, the best tricksters do pay attention to the small details...

 

[FridayYet]

LOL

 

[familypendragon]

I wonder if the bloom thats put on at the end if it has any uv protection and if that were put on unevenly if that would account for the odd sun fadded look? Just a thought but you could test it and set an egg in the sun and see....

I think I found some info for you http://hencam.com/henblog/2012/02/brown-green-blue-white-chicken-egg-color-the-real-story/

As the egg moves down the passageway it rotates. If it goes slowly, the egg will have dark speckles. A notch up in speed and there will be streaks. Sometimes it will look chalky. Sometimes, half of the egg is darker than the other, and it appears to have been dipped in dye. This is because the egg moves through the passage round side first. That end, pushing through, has more contact with the papillae that excrete the pigment, and thus it’s laid on with more pressure.

 

[lonnyandrinda]

OK pulled the egg out and did some checking. Color didn't change with wetting. Egg was infertile which surprises me.





Outside of egg shell, light color on left dark color on right:


Flipped them over and stripped off the membrane and was surprised- the one that was lighter on the outside was slightly DARKER on the inside! So I guess it was just a glitch in the hen's system and somehow the color on that end of the egg got drawn to the exterior of the egg.