Weird looking creature found in egg! Very confused!!!

[SilkiesForEver]

Here is something similar...

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/473989/weird-egg-weird-clump-lash-graphic-pics

 

[chickengeorgeto]

It looks like a deformed yoke or maybe a floating piece of hen flesh that separated from the inside of the hens reproductive track and then got enclosed in the shell with a yoke and white. It is more or less normal, at least in so far as it isn't abnormal.

I have seen double yoked eggs that had one complete egg, yoke, white, shell and all, enclosed inside a second more or less complete egg including a separate yoke white and a second exterior shell. I saw one like that less than two weeks ago. It was a hatching egg farm reject but it still was a fine eating egg.

 

[sandrameissnest]

Wow,that looks like an alien....

 

[Majd]

Maybe it's a worm that passed from the digestive system through the cloaca to the reproductive system... I read that once in a thread here but can't remember the link.... so they can be infected in worms... but even if it happens once in a while that a worm goes to the digestive system.... but it can be something else... I don't think an embryo.... as you collect your eggs everyday... so might be something that passed with the egg... sometimes I see small dark red peices in the white but that's normal... it happens sometimes...

 

[lazy gardener]

If I had to guess, it might be a parasite. I once found a roundworm inside an egg. It's definitely not an embryo. Possible that as a previous poster stated it may be a misplaced piece of tissue.

 

[Sarah6129]

Thanks to everyone who responded. I'm still not sure what it was, but I'm not as freaked out as I was at first!

 

[sandrameissnest]

did it happen again or was it from the first egg? did you laid eggs afterwards what was fine?

 

[Sarah6129]

It has only happened once that I know of. I have given some eggs to friends, but no one has said anything, so probably just the one time. I have been getting normal eggs since.