Seriously ugly EE egg!

[dfdesigns]

My EE has been laying for about 2 months, and her eggs have been terrific. Yesterday's egg, well...

One of her normal eggs is shown for comparison. Any ideas what those weird bumps are? They are hard and shell-like. Looks like she had some sort of color malfunction, too!

 

[WingingIt]

Yeah, they have an *oops* egg sometimes. The bumps are just extra shell material, nothing to worry about.

 

[flowerchild59]

i think it looks kind of cool.

 

[cackleberrycoop]

Well, now, that's uhhhmmm..... an egg.....
I get those hard dots sometimes on eggs and I've heard a few different explanations for what it is; no big deal in any case -they come and go. The coloration is cute; maybe you'll get spotted eggs from her sometimes. I love spotted eggs.

 

[Sir Birdaholic]

Hey, did you get that from my hen?

I get them sometimes.

 

[dfdesigns]

I think the coloring would be pretty neat on its own, but the Frankenstein-ish bumps are throwing me for a loop!

 

[txliss]

It's all perfectly normal. Whomever is working in your hen's "body shop and paint" department is just having an off day. That or the quality control guy is on strike...

 

[Illia]

You think that's ugly? . . . . Give her to me.

Seriously, I LOVE those eggs that are half one color, half another.

 

[chickerdoodle]

Its normal every now and then.

It looks pretty big too--have you opened it to see if its a double yolker?

 

[crtrlovr]

just extra color and extra calcium bumps -- nothing to be concerned about. BTW, DON'T pick the calcium deposits off unless you're ready to open the egg. I did that with an egg I was going to put in a "for sale" carton and picked a hole in the shell.