eggs with stripes!?!?!?

[jamminally]

Hi all,
I'm a new member and am just bursting to share these pics with someone interested! These eggs were laid by a french copper maran over the last 2 days and I am gobsmacked. Has anyone ever seem striped or duo colour eggs like these before and why/how?! the divide in colour goes pretty evenly all the way around the egg and the edges are sharp from one colour to the other, particularly the stripped one.. They look like Easter eggs!

 

[luvmypets]

Amazing i think thats cool! Never seen anything like it!

 

[TwoCrows]

Hello there and welcome to BYC!

I have never had striped eggs, but I have had eggs with sharp lines of two colors. I am not sure how the dye or bloom is put on but sometimes they do run out of it!

Thanks for sharing!

Enjoy your eggs and welcome to our flock!

 

[Kelsie2290]

Hello and Welcome To BYC! Pretty eggs, funny when that happens, there are a couple of links in this thread about them https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/626483/striped-egg/10

 

[jamminally]

Hi, thanks very much. What an interesting blog. I hope I get some more of these wonderful chucky eggs soon. I cant bring myself to break them., I am going to blow them and keep them to look at!

 

[Michael OShay]

Welcome to BYC! Those are fascination eggs. I hope you can get an accurate explanation of how this occurred. Good luck with your search for knowledge.

 

[Nofowlplay]

Cool eggs!

 

[drumstick diva]

Sometimes young layers have eggs like that when their system is working out kinks, the color isn't laid down evenly. Keep the ones you are getting because eventually they will produce regular eggs.

 

[jamminally]

Thanks for that everyone.
I cant believe how many people i have shown these to who have said they are fake or tampered with (non chicken keepers i should add). If i do get any more tho I will put up some more pics.

 

[K9Dave]

Very cool