very strange! blue egg inside brown egg [pics]

[EweSheep]

Someone bounds to have an answer to a two toned ink jet chicken that lays two different colored eggs!

 

[Sphinx]

Maybe you're the first! Or your chicken is just that rare.

Maybe you have a chimera chicken...

 

[georgialee]

Out of curiosity, what was the color of the inside of the brown egg?

 

[roocrazy]

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good thought!!

 

[jessleeh]

ok.. i found this fascinating so i googled it. here's an idea... the inside egg was the first to form, but somehow went back up into the oviduct instead of moving forward, and the process started over. the blue must be how the eggs all start out, then the pigment is deposited on the finished egg, turning it brown. ??? what do you think?

here are the websites i got my info from:
http://www.bevsmarans.com/about_bev's_marans.htm
http://www.stuff.co.nz/oddstuff/56072/Egg-within-egg-a-freak-of-nature

 

[georgialee]

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If the inside of the brown egg is blue that would most likely be the case.

 

[Stuck in the Coop]

I read this thread earlier and thought, "how cool". Just now while reading a really old thread on EEs I found this quote:

From what I've read, there are only two colors of eggs, white and blue. Brown eggs are a brown overlay over a white egg. Green eggs are a brown overlay over a blue egg. The inside of my EEs eggs are blue, the insides of my brown eggs are white.

So the previous posters idea about the blue egg not getting color might be on the right track. It might have been green had it worked correctly and who would suspect a brown egg was 'odd' when collecting?

I'd like to know the breeds these eggs were laid by, that could solve it.

Link to thread I found quote in The EE braggers thread​

 

[2overeasy]

Well, I had an answer from the Poultry Extension Specialist at Oregon State U. Interesting, b/c he mentions the very thing that jesslee mentioned above. I, however, am still not satisfied with his response. I hope someone at APA addresses my question. Here is his response:

This is intriguing but difficult to determine how this occurred. An egg within an egg is not uncommon. This occurs from time to time. A “mistake“ occurs during egg laying; instead of laying, the egg moves back up the oviduct, acts as a yolk and is packaged inside another egg. When this occurs there is significant egg white between the two shells and the “outside” egg is significantly larger than normal, like a double yolk. From the photos, egg white between the eggs is not evident and the difference in size does not appear to be significant. So this does not fit the typical pattern.

Brown egg color is the “normal” color for chicken eggs, white as found in Leghorns (and others) is a mutation that eliminates most of the color (this is a very simplistic explanation) however, Blue Egg is a different gene altogether. Based on the genetics, a hen that lays brown eggs can’t switch to lay blue eggs; it is either one or the other. The rooster that the hen is bred to has no influence on egg color.

Sorry but I don’t know of a way that this could happen naturally.


-James Hermes
Extension Poultry Specialist
Oregon State University


Me again: so what now? She got up again this morning for some food and potty so I looked in on the eggs - still 10 eggs, all intact. I started with 2 blue (I checked them when my friend first gave them to me) and now have 3 with small bits of brown shell around it.
I swear, people, I am NOT making this up! As I said to the poster who suggested a prank, there is simply no one here who would do that, and I simply don't have time to do something that elaborate. I'm busy running a farm by myself and a college professor, not to mention I like to get out on my bike or ride a horse whenever I have time!
I am as perplexed as everyone...

So I am completely baffled...

 

[EweSheep]

I am baffled too! Someone has to straighten out her ink jets LOL! Or get it unclogged LOL!

 

[2overeasy]

I just thought today that maybe I should have marked that egg with a pencil to see if it hatches. I don't know, however, if I would even mark the right egg. I [now] have 3 blue eggs, and since it's been 4 days since I found this egg, I'm sure she's been turning them and adjusting them. This morning when I looked the egg in front was a blue egg - just about where I put that one back - so it could be that one. Should I go ahead and mark that one, with the high possibility that it's the same egg? I would lovelovelove to know if that one hatches!