Egg inside an egg!!

[wildflower]

This is truely crazy........My friend who I split our chick order with, just found a giantic egg from one of the Aracanas, it was blue green and very round. We cracked it open to fine two yolks a bunch of very runny white and yes.....an entire second egg, shell and all. I guess this is the second one she has found, the first was white, we think from a white leg horn. The egg was the size of a plum! These chickens are only six months old. (sorry, I wrote six weeks and scared some people to death..edited it, quick!) I get double yolks from, white, green and brown eggs daily. Is this normal, has anyone heard of a double egg? We feed them high quality organic lay crumble and extra flax. We are feeling very sorry for the girl who had to push that hugie out!

 

[FluffyChickenMama]

Am I reading that right?? Your chickens are laying at 6 weeks old??

 

[speckledhen]

I've heard of that happening-one of many possible glitches in the system of new layers. Surely you meant 16 weeks, not six!
Look at this site-there's a pic of that very thing:
http://www.poultryhelp.com/oddeggs.html

 

[aran]

i love how they call yolkless eggs " fart eggs"

 

[wildflower]

Whoops.......I ment six months!

 

[MayberrySaint]

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I'm glad you corrected that...I was heading out the door to go give my girls a scolding for being such slackers...

 

[joanm]

 

[homecatmom]

Here we were getting ready to do the happy dance since my girls are going on 5 weeks! I told DH to get those laying boxes ready for the girls! Now someone talk about the double egg thing, it sounds interesting.

 

[chickenwoods]

I get a double yolker every week almost from one of my RIRs
My customers love them LOL,they always say OH look at dat one!! must be a double yolker lol!!

 

[lurky]

I wonder if a hen sat on that egg for 21 days.......what would happen