Odd crackly egg shell

[12 Acres]

One of our chooks laid this crackled egg today. I think the cracking occurred inside the hen because the egg shell was very firm when I gave it a slight squeeze to see if it would give. Anyone else ever get an egg like this?

 

[Enchanted Sunrise Farms]

Wow!

That's a first for me. i have seen a lot of strange eggs, but i have never seen one like that.

 

[12 Acres]

Wow indeed! I wanted to look inside later on but when I got back from my shopping my husband told me he sold it along with another carton of eggs to a guy. He actually wanted 3 dozen eggs but I only had 2 on hand. My hubby raided our fridge in search of eggs to sell and that's how it ended up getting sold today. I just hope the customer knows that it doesn't mean there's something wrong with the egg, just the shell is unusual. I asked hubs not to take eggs from our fridge to sell but instead just sell the ones we keep in the fridge out in the shop. I like to sell eggs that are of a large size to slightly extra large with no stains or cracks on them. So hopefully this won't happen again! But it sure was nice to make that egg sale anyway. I just bought feed for them last week and it wasn't cheap! Egg sales help with the cost of the feed.

 

[Enchanted Sunrise Farms]

Oh, too bad your husband sold it. It would have made a cool blown egg Christmas decoration!

 

[mrandmrschicken]

Thats cool! It looks like it could be a dinosaur egg! You must have dinochickens!

 

[Cason]

Has it been frozen?

 

[Opa]

Maybe it's an alligator.

 

[speckledhen]

Sometimes, it's a glitch. Sometimes it means the reproductive tract has been damaged due to something like Infectious Bronchitis and sometimes, a hard, depleting molt will cause odd egg issues.

 

[Crazy_For_Chickens]

That looks cool!
Do you need a license for selling eggs?

 

[12 Acres]

airheart, yes it was too bad. I really wanted to see what was inside. Hopefully it was a normal yolk and white.

mrandmrschicken, dinochickens! Well that's a possibility. I don't think chickens are far removed from dinos!

Cason, it wasn't frozen.

opa, no gators here in NW Ohio!

speckledhen, the pullet that laid is 7 months old and my birds are healthy. My birds have yet to go through their first molt. I think the girl that laid it is just an odd ball.

crazy_for_chickens, no license needed and even if I did "need" one I wouldn't get one. Yes, I have Libertarian tendencies.