Strange Welsummer Egg

[Crofts]

This morning I found that one of my Welsummer pullets, Matilda, had laid a very unusual egg. It's about 95% white, with a small circular patch of normal pigmentation. There is no doubt that is came from a Welsummer.



Reading around I do not think eggs like this are very common, hence I had the urge to photograph it!

 

[cavemanrich]

Looks like an eye. Save it as a conversation piece. Let us know how the following eggs turn out.
WISHING YOU BEST...

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

From what I read the egg rotates in the shell gland while pigment gets applied. Perhaps she started but than for some reason never finished. Was it in a nestbox? Very interesting.

 

[Crofts]

From what I read the egg rotates in the shell gland while pigment gets applied. Perhaps she started but than for some reason never finished. Was it in a nestbox? Very interesting.

They're terrible at using the nestboxes. They always lay in the wood shavings I use in the bottom of their house.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Glitch in the paint booth.

Here is one I got:

 

[Crofts]

So my Welsummer Matilda has just laid her next egg after the weird white one.
The shell colour has gone back to normal speckled brown.

 

[emgrider]

That is so funny! I've never seen anything like it