Very strange egg!!

[Gigijoji6]

Hello everyone!

Had anyone ever seen this before?

We have chickens in our yard that lay blue eggs, chickens that lay light brown eggs, and chickens that lay dark brown eggs. We are very happy with the amount of eggs that we get from them!

Today when I went to get the eggs from the yard I noticed an egg that had "two" shells, meaning that the yolk was encased in two separate shells (happens to several of our chickens when they first start laying eggs so I wasn't worried)

But then I looked closer and the eggs were two different colors! I peeled one side of the egg for a better view, the egg was originally very "mucus-y" in-between the two shells.

I have attached the egg in the photos.

Can one chicken lay different colored eggs? Please let me know! I've never seen this before!

 

[CHlCKEN]

Usually it's because one egg breaks and another egg is shoved inside the broken shell. That's definitely what happened here.

 

[aart]

Usually it's because one egg breaks and another egg is shoved inside the broken shell. That's definitely what happened here.

Yep, the brown shell is from an egg that was crushed and eaten, the blue egg ended up inside somehow.

when I went to get the eggs from the yard

Your birds don't lay in nests, just out in the 'yard'?

 

[CHlCKEN]

Your birds don't lay in nests, just out in the 'yard'?

Probably OP means “chicken yard” and they went out to that section of their property to get them.

 

[the_peanut_coop]

Yeah, what that looks like is a brown egg layer layed and then ate some of the egg and shell. and then an EE or an olive egger came round and layed right in the shell.

 

[aart]

Probably OP means “chicken yard” and they went out to that section of their property to get them.

We should let them answer that

 

[CHlCKEN]

We should let them answer that

Just a thought

 

[Gigijoji6]

We should let them answer that

Yes, I meant in the section of their yard that their nest boxes are set up Thanks @Chicken for clarifying for me