Siamese egg

[PaulaJoAnne]

Today I was checking eggs in our main coop, and heard a large commotion in our "solitary confinement" coop. We just moved 4 hens and a rooster into there 2 days ago, to allow breed specific laying in our main coop. Apparently one of the hens couldn't hang on any longer; she laid a "Siamese egg!" We haven't cut them apart yet to see if the hard shelled egg had fully formed or not.

 

[Kevin565]

Never seen an egg like that before. Very interesting!

 

[RachelCheyenne]

That's insane looking, I wonder what caused it??

 

[nurse_turtle]

Traffic jam.

 

[PaulaJoAnne]

Traffic jam.

Exactly! The soft shell was stuck to the hardshell and piggybacked on out with it. From the egg song, it was quite a relief!

 

[mom29]

Was there another egg sac in the hard shell?

 

[PaulaJoAnne]

She delayed laying due to being moved. So the next egg got pushed up on the ready to lay one. She layed the eggs before the other one could get its hard shell.