strange looking egg!!!

[Gus]

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I am tired and when I read this post the first time I thought it said "New Lawyers." I was gonna disagree with you on that one.

I have in excess of fifty laying hens (and the good Lord only knows how many pullets, cockerels and other birds I have around here.) and we get the occasional weird egg also.
I have found if you try to incubate them, they never hatch. The swirling on the end of the egg is caused by the trip down the old egg laying tube.
If you continue to get eggs, every week or so, that do not have a shell, you might want to consider increasing the oyster shell grit, or find another grit, with calcium in it, that is easier for the girls to digest.
It is possible that the hen has a genetic defect (although proving it would be extremely difficult) and she should not be used for breeding.
Either way, the large eggs, the small eggs (Marble Sized) will not hatch, buut they can still be eaten.

 

[Portia]

OMG When my hens lay overly large eggs they are usually torpedo shaped, long and relatively thin. That big round bowling ball of an egg looks like vent torture occurred. I have noticed that sometimes when I have a younger hen that has not laid in a day or two the egg I get an overly large or odd shaped egg.

 

[crazy cat lady]

Okay, I know my eyes are bad, but I didn't see any crack in that potato sized egg. I saw a line around the middle, but it looked like a dent to me. Like I said, I know my eyes are bad. Are you sure your chicken isn't try to imitate a goose with an egg that size?

 

[jeeperspeepers]

I get a "wrinkled" egg almost everyday. I am guessing it is the same hen but I have 27 and have no idea who it is. They are a year old now. Should I start systematically trying to figure out who is the wrinkle layer? Is it a sick hen? The eggs are normal on the inside. We have been eating them. Is that bad?
I have been wondering all this time. I never thought too much about it but now I am worried.

 

[chickenfever]

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I don't think you need to be worried about eating them if all looks normal inside the egg.

 

[Chickbait]

those large eggs scare me! freaky!

 

[monarc23]

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haha its a potato egg!

 

[Gus]

So long as the egg shell is not cracked, there is nothing to worry about. The eggs are fine to eat.

 

[TriciaHowe]

That poor hen that layed the potato egg. She may need some reconstructive surgery now!

 

[onebuggirl]

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Um Chickens are current day dinosaurs so perhaps they are re-evolving back into T Rex