Monster egg!!!

[CarriBrown]

Good grief... I'm in pain just looking at that!

But I bet it will be mighty good!

 

[buckbeak]

That's pretty normal for my leghorns- single yolkers. I love that they are huge. They look massivie also compared to all my bantum eggs.

 

[Pinenot]

What chicken lays the biggest eggs regurally???

Poor baby! That would hurt!!

 

[pattycake]

My Delawares give me one like that -- so you can't close the carton -- about once a week. I don't know if it's the same girl or not, but it's the same color as the Delaware eggs. They're double-yolkers!

I worry it'll blow her out, though....

 

[okiechick57]

I worry it'll blow her out, though....

I had a baby that worried me like that.​

 

[bhadrika]

My daughter found the egg, on the floor instead of in the box. She thought it was a stone -- it was a little misshapen, and about 2-3x normal size (pictures to follow). We have EEs, which have been laying eggs between large and extra large, but this one was beyond jumbo. I asked her if any of the chickens were walking funny after laying that one, but we have no clue who laid it.

I decided to blow the egg, in order to save the huge shell. I poked an extra-large hole, so that the yolk(s) could come out intact enough for us to see if it was just a double-yolker, or perhaps a triple. I blew out egg for a while, but then it wouldn't come out. The remainder rolled around in the shell, disturbingly solid-feeling. I expanded the hole a bit to feel inside... And there was another egg.

We've done some looking about on the web, and it appears that this egg-within-an-egg phenomenon is pretty rare, but not unheard of. Best theory is that an egg gets lost and backtracks up the laying mechnism, where it meets and gets engulphed by the next egg coming down.

Anyway, I'll post the photos soon, but I just had to share.

Bhadrika

 

[Basia]

I gotta see this!

 

[thechickenfarmer]

My Buff Orps lay huge double yokers but I haven't had one in a while. Does anyone know.........Does this typically happen to young chickens or old or doesn't age matter? I read somewhere that it happens when a hen is at the end of her laying career but mine did it from very young. Just curious

 

[Matt A NC]

We had 1 of the egg in an egg 3 years ago. The barred rock hen I think laid it was only 1 year old. The egg was HUGE. We cracked it open to fine lots of white, a yolk, and another hole egg. The inside egg was a normal Large egg that she usually lays.

That hen had a heart attack about 3 months later, but it was in the high 90s when she died.

Matt

 

[LoneCowboy]

I got one of those big old eggs today, can't even close the carton. It's kinda cool, and the people I sell them too, get a kick out of the weird eggs I send them.