Discolored boiled egg

[hipichk]

Not sure why this happens? I do have a mean RIR hen that jumps on hens and shakes and pulls their feathers off? Could that be disturbing egg? Every once in a while someone tells me they get this from our eggs - I’m not sure what bread is doing this

 

[EggSighted4Life]

Hi there.

Do your birds free range? What does the inside look like when you slice it open?

I suspect it to be diet related... but here is a fairly good collection of egg issues and POSSIBLE causes...
https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/common-egg-quality-problems.65923/

The bullying can disturb eggs, but I've never seen it happen in this fashion. But I new stuff all the time and I'm here to learn!

 

[aart]

Would also like to see the green/gray one cut open.
Did it smell weird....did they taste it??
Were both those eggs cooked in the same pot?

ETA: were both eggs brown shelled?

 

[hipichk]

Both eggs brown shell, cooked in same pot, no smell but did not taste.

 

[hipichk]

It looks like a yolk almost broke in white ‍

 

[aart]

It looks like a yolk almost broke in white

Hmmmm....the color is the same as the surface of an over-boiled yolk.

 

[hipichk]

I know, weird

 

[aart]

Too bad the shell color isn't unique so you could find out which bird ....and also see if unboiled eggs are funky.

 

[EggSighted4Life]

Hmmmm....the color is the same as the surface of an over-boiled yolk.

I suspect maybe those eggs are higher in the compound that causes the yolks to turn green when over cooked... A sulfur/iron interaction.
https://www.incredibleegg.org/cooking-school/tips-tricks/why-eggs-turn-green/

It *looks* safe... I would *probably* feed them back to my animals.

If it's important to know which hen is laying them, I might try some of the color vent marking ideas.. food coloring or lip stick.