My enormous egg with a surprise!

[MkBorgen]

So just thought I would share my enormous egg with you guys! I found it last week and couldn't believe my eyes poor chick! Check out the surprise inside the egg!!

Yep that is an egg within an egg!

As you can see the egg is fully formed and has a hard shell.

And there it is one huge egg with another egg inside of it.

 

[chseeads]

Wow, that's wild....lol I saw another pic of that phenomenon but the egg inside wasn't too big.... That looks like a pretty decent sized egg that was on the inside!

 

[robbdebbie]

That is soooooooo weird, interesting and sick all at once!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


You are braver than I , because I wouldn't have been able to open the smaller egg. It looked like some sort of tumor.

 

[1stepcloser]

OUCH! Somebody get that hen an icepack!

 

[happytxchick]

Wow! That poor hen!

 

[MkBorgen]

I know I was kinda hesitant to crack the smaller one open but just had to make sure there wasn't anything else inside! I just don't understand how the larger egg formed around it and why it wouldn't have been laid before. And yes it was a small but good sized egg. I'm getting worried because we always have one that lays jumbo sized eggs and I've noticed them starting to get bigger again so I don't know if this will occur often or what!

 

[chickerdoodle]

Holy moley

I saw a video on youtube recently of the same thing--was that you??

 

[gumpsgirl]

Wow!

Thanks for posting pics for us to see of that. Very cool! Poor hen...

 

[stephys_fluffybutts]

Wow!
I had a silkie hens lay a 5 layered egg. Yes really! five eggs!
I was just as surprised as you are.. She layed 20 sum eggs just like that.
She got sick one day and died. I never figured out what happened. I am guessing it was from trying to lay a huge egg.

Its a wonder how they manage to do that

 

[wildorchid053]

that is awesome.. from what i gather the egg instead of pushing out goes back inward and another egg is produced around it.. then it is finally pushed outward into the nest