Hen laying different colored eggs

[Dr_Pepper]

So one of my ladies laid 2 eggs with 2 shells 2 days in a row. The first day I thought okay it’s got a second shell no big deal, the 2nd day the egg inside is one color and the outside shell is another. I know that people say it’s impossible for a hen to lay 2 different colored eggs or their color to change but I’m thinking that may not be the case. Here is the proof.

 

[aart]

I would guess that both those are not double shelled eggs but an intact egg slipped into a broken egg shell from birds shuffling stuff around in the nests.

 

[Kiki]

I would guess that both those are not double shelled eggs but an intact egg slipped into a broken egg shell from birds shuffling stuff around in the nests.

I agree.

 

[Dr_Pepper]

I would guess that both those are not double shelled eggs but an intact egg slipped into a broken egg shell from birds shuffling stuff around in the nests.

That would be a great guess except it was completely encased in the 2nd shell until I peeled it back. No way for it to slide in.

 

[WingItRanch]

Fascinating! I found this article that shows a double shelled egg and in the photo example, it does look like the color is slightly different.

"EGG WITHIN AN EGG:
An egg within an egg, or a double shelled egg appears when an egg that is nearly ready to be laid reverses direction and gets a new layer of albumen covered by a second shell. Sometimes the reversed egg joins up with the next egg and the two are encased together within a new shell. Double shelled eggs are so rare that no one knows exactly why or how they happen. The photo below was provided by one of our website visitors, Michelle Byerly, of Jasper, Texas. The bowl is a standard single serving cereal bowl. The egg was laid either by a Buff Orpington or a Black Australorp in early 2004. The egg found inside the other had no yolk (fart egg)."

https://www.poultryhelp.com/oddeggs.html

 

[Dr_Pepper]

Fascinating! I found this article that shows a double shelled egg and in the photo example, it does look like the color is slightly different.

"EGG WITHIN AN EGG:
An egg within an egg, or a double shelled egg appears when an egg that is nearly ready to be laid reverses direction and gets a new layer of albumen covered by a second shell. Sometimes the reversed egg joins up with the next egg and the two are encased together within a new shell. Double shelled eggs are so rare that no one knows exactly why or how they happen. The photo below was provided by one of our website visitors, Michelle Byerly, of Jasper, Texas. The bowl is a standard single serving cereal bowl. The egg was laid either by a Buff Orpington or a Black Australorp in early 2004. The egg found inside the other had no yolk (fart egg)."

https://www.poultryhelp.com/oddeggs.html

Awesome, thank you!

 

[Ridgerunner]

Brown in brown, yes. Green in green, yes. Green in brown, no. A hen can lay eggs with different shades of the same base color but she does not change her basic eggshell color.

 

[Dr_Pepper]

Brown in brown, yes. Green in green, yes. Green in brown, no. A hen can lay eggs with different shades of the same base color but she does not change her basic eggshell color.

If that were true, How would you explain this?

 

[EggSighted4Life]

If that were true, How would you explain this?

Welcome to BYC!

Olive egger?? Blue insides with brown coating, still working it's kinks out? Fun mystery!

 

[Dr_Pepper]

Welcome to BYC!

Olive egger?? Blue insides with brown coating, still working it's kinks out? Fun mystery!

Thank you! Yes olive egger, she is fairly young just started laying the past couple months.