Eggs with yucky fluid on the outside

[nu2chixinmo]

Bare with me, I am new to this, as my username states.

A friend of mine has some Araunca hens that lay beautiful colored eggs, just recently one of them has laid the eggs with a fluid sac on the outside of the egg.... What is the cause of this, and is it normal?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[65browneyes]

One of my Ameraucana hens laid an egg like this a while back. I was never able to find out what it was, or what caused it. She's not laid another like it since. Maybe you'll be able to find the answers that I could not.

 

[JamesC]

It's a very unusual thing, but sometimes a fully formed egg will travel back inside the oviduct were to where the albumen and membranes are deposited. It's possible to have an egg laid that has a complete egg inside of it. In this case there was no shell deposited, just some albumen and a membrane.
I'm sure it's not a problem, just a one time occurrance.

James

 

[mudhen]

Wow, the things one learns here!
I had never heard of that happening.

Thanks, JamesC, I'll file that away and hope I don't have it happen with one of my chickens!