It was indeed a double-yoker which was cool! The inside of the larger part (towards my palm) was a totally normal egg. The smaller part (towards my fore-finger and thumb) was mostly a yolk, not much white. They were joined by a tiny pin-hole of the inner membrane while the outer membrane covered them both. So cool! After much debate, it was scrambled and fed to the chickens. It did take some time, however, to convince my husband that this would not cause egg-eating behavior since they can't *cook* the egg and the scrambled egg we give them does not even come close to resembling the egg they know. Sigh.
Thank you all for your information and encouragement!!!
MetalSmitten, we are near Lafayette so just a couple hours north of you. It is very different from home (Michigan) but it is slowly growing on me. Whenever we have a free weekend, and chicken-sitters, we head either to Turkey Run or down towards your neck of the woods. Surely beats corn and soybean which consume the horizon here.
ChickChick0811, I still can't figure which girl laid this lovely egg but we have since had a perfectly normal egg of the same cream-ish color laid so I'm hoping it's from the same girl and she's worked it out. We haven't had anymore funky eggs though. I wish they would check in/out of their boxes so I knew better who was doing what.
karlamaria, ya know, I recommend yogurt to people for good calcium but it never occured to me that it would be the same for a chicken. Geesh.
Thanks for the a-ha! moment!!! We've given them yogurt, but not consistently; maybe we'll try that after the bag of Oyster Shell (not really ok with that) is gone.