One of my hens laid a huge soft shelled egg with a normal egg inside!

[shandiane78]

Just thought I'd share! Hands down the most bizarre egg I've found! It was HUGE. The shell was soft and squishy, but when I broke it open, there was a normal sized hard shelled egg inside it! One yolk in the outer egg, another yolk in the smaller egg. I guess she didn't have enough calcium to make that huge outer shell in addition to the normal shell inside!

 

[Camelot Farms]

There are some videos showing this on youtube.

I've been blessed to not receive one of these from my hens. I have a strong gag reflex...lol.

 

[kassy68]

No picture? I think my hen was trying to do this , but just died this morning in the process.. the egg I got when I opened her up was a perfect egg, bigger then her normal with a membrance around it. poor girl. Good job on yours there.. Ive heard ppl saying they've found like 6 or more eggs layered within each other.. way weird.. I am STILL wondering how the shelled egg got back up to the area to put a new membrane on it..

 

[shandiane78]

Ok, so the same hen that laid the egg within an egg laid another bizarro egg today. (This time I took pics.) This one is much smaller, and is an egg covered with another white, and a weird looking membrane.

 

[boxwoman]

I had the same thing happen today. Crazy!

 

[CheerfulHeart2]

I got one of these once. It was very weird.

 

[CheerfulHeart2]

except my outer egg was really only a sack of slime...no yolk. I did google egg inside egg once and found some interesting info.

 

[CityClucks]

I think someone hatched one of these once and the Aliens vs. Predator movies were born...

 

[boxwoman]

My hen has not layed an egg since Friday when she layed that giant egg with an smaller egg inside. Is there anything that I can do to help her become regular?

 

[shandiane78]

I don't know if there's anything you can do, but after mine laid the huge egg within an egg, she stopped for 3 days I think? Then she laid this bizarre one in the photo, and nothing for a couple days after that. Now she has laid two normal eggs in two days, so I hope her system is starting to regulate. Good luck!