HEN laying STRIPED eggs!!

[friend of chickens]

Is there anyone else who has had this experience? My Marans Cuivre is laying striped eggs.

They are very rough-- the dark brown/red stripes are raised and bumpy (as if it is texture sprayed on). I think it looks really neat--in my opinion they resemble the planet Jupiter...I'm sure this has got to be rare--I've never seen anything like it when searching the "odd egg" pictures on the web. I have a couple of these in my incubator right now. Just thought I'd post this here to see if anyone else has had this experience....

 

[cackydoodledoo]

That's pretty cool. It's like she was spinning in circles when it was being made!!

 

[Illia]

Yep, I've seen some very fascinating eggs laid by Marans and Olive Eggers (Wynette has the COOLEST olive eggs at times) - Never gotten any myself though.

That is very neat!

 

[Desert Rooster]

that looks like blood, a hens very first egg looks like that

 

[friend of chickens]

It is not blood. She had laid about 7 of these. She started laying in mid Feb and her first was yolkless. She has laid 3 that were shelless and a number of them break upon laying--(it seems that that last coat of color adds to the strength of the shell-- and hers don't get much of that last layer). The dark brown/red is very rough--like I said. It is not blood. It feels like drywall spray texture.

 

[Illia]

Not blood. It's the sprayed on coloring. In fact, if you touch a Marans egg just as it is or after it came out, you can get that coloring on your fingers.

 

[friend of chickens]

So, have you seen stripes before? And who is Wynette?

 

[FeatheredFeline]

That a very cool egg. I've never heard of that before! (but then again I know next to nothing about chickens)

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

I was going to say it looks like Jupiter, too!!!!

 

[elizabethbinary]

Wow! I wonder if that's how eggs are made, by turning slowly in that direction until they have a shell... or something. I WANT STRIPED EGGS D: