"Long eggs".

[jimz1]

A couple of our chickens are laying long eggs.What I mean is they are egg shaped but only stretched. It's mostly our EE but sometimes it's others. What causes this and will they grow out of it?

 

[boxermom]

My Dad always called those "torpedo" eggs. I get one every once in awhile too. Not sure why.

 

[Martha80]

I got those torpedo eggs (or 'pullet bullets' as someone else said! )from one or two hens when they first began laying. They almost always were a double yolker.

 

[lynn1961]

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X2, same for our new layers, occ. for the older ones also.

 

[flowergirl60]

I got one of those yesterday. I'll get one every so often.

 

[gritsar]

I have one hen "Ivy" that lays them all the time:

And another hen that lays them from time to time. Doesn't matter, as they are all the same tasty eggs inside. My egg customers get a kick out of them.

 

[teach1rusl]

I rarely got those when my girls were younger, but I get them fairly often now that my birds are older (two). Mine have huge yolks, but aren't double yolkers. I call them torpedo eggs as well

Not sure what causes them...in my head I picture an egg s l o w l y leaving the
infunidbulum???...so slowly that as the shell forms around the membrane it's all stretched out...lol. My imaginination works in cartoon form.

 

[DanEP]

I have two barred rocks that lay those and have never layed any other shape. they are always large to x large but always the same shape.They were always that long from the start just got fatter with age. But they eat just fine.