Dark Green Egg

[Mrs Chicken Keep]

Hello Everyone - This is my first post on this site. I have four backyard chickens: a Wyandotte, an Orpington and two Americaunas. One of my Americauna hens laid the most bizarre dark green egg recently and I’m just wondering if anyone else has seen something like this. In the photo, one of her regular eggs is on the right and the psychedelic egg (as my husband referred to it) is on the left. It was the same size and weight as her other eggs and it looked normal when we cracked it, although the yolk seemed larger than normal. Just wondering if this is a regular phenomenon or something special.

 

[Mrs Chicken Keep]

 

[Buckingham Palace]

Welcome to BYC. That is a an interesting egg. I hope someone can answer your question. Let us know if she lays it again.

 

[Buckingham Palace]

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It looks like one of those make-up sponges.

 

[Mrs Chicken Keep]

My husband sent the photo to some friends and they said it looked like a little planet

 

[Buckingham Palace]

My husband sent the photo to some friends and they said it looked like a little planet

That is also true.

 

[Mrs Chicken Keep]

Welcome to BYC. That is a an interesting egg. I hope someone can answer your question. Let us know if she lays it again.

Thank you for the welcome!
I’ve been on this site so many times to get answers to questions or to just peruse, but never really had anything to post until now. I do hope someone has seen something like this before. I was concerned at first, but she has since laid a “normal” egg and she seems fine.

 

[MysteryChicken]

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Pretty egg.

 

[Buckingham Palace]

Thank you for the welcome!
I’ve been on this site so many times to get answers to questions or to just peruse, but never really had anything to post until now. I do hope someone has seen something like this before. I was concerned at first, but she has since laid a “normal” egg and she seems fine

That's how I found this website. So glad that you decide to say Hi.

 

[Mrs Chicken Keep]

Pretty egg.

Thanks, I think so too!