Fresh eggs look hard boiled

[WanderingWarbler]

Quick question. Any clues as to why some of my fresh eggs look hard boiled? I cracked open a fresh egg today and the whites were solid, as if I’d hard boiled it. They were slightly runny though. It’s getting hot here but over 150F? No way.

 

[PioneerChicks]

Maybe Lash Egg? Can you cut open the egg? Pictures?

 

[aart]

Pics would definitely help here.

 

[WanderingWarbler]

Pics would definitely help here.

Hard boil an egg, that’s exactly what it looks like.

 

[WanderingWarbler]

Maybe Lash Egg? Can you cut open the egg? Pictures?

Lol

 

[WanderingWarbler]

Top egg

 

[Painted Calls]

Definitely not a lash egg.

Hmm... That is very odd.

 

[humblehillsfarm]

I am just hypothesizing here but is it possible for an egg to stay inside a hen so long it partially cooks?? I tried to google this and came up with nothing so I'm just guessing.

Any way the egg was left close to something hot for an extended period of time?? For example, I softened a whole onion that was laying too close to my grill once.

This is very interesting...

 

[aart]

Weird!
Was center of yolk liquid?
Only the one egg or others too?
Had to have been stored somewhere hot for too long...
....or was maybe someone playing a trick on you?

 

[crowber]

Is the nest box getting direct sun and/or has a metal roof on it? I'd put a thermometer in there just to make sure it wasn't becoming an oven. When I built my coop I noticed the metal roof got scaldingly hot, so when I built the nest box I made sure to put plywood underneath the metal, and the nest box is on the shady side of the coop.