What the heck is in my egg??

[FlockO5ive]

Kind of freaked out by this. Any ideas what this is? We were thinking a second egg but it has no shell.

 

[chooks4life]

Strange! I don't know. Hopefully someone who does know will come and enlighten us.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Okay, you have stumped me. I've never seen anything like that.

It looks kind of like a yolk from what I can see in the picture. Is it soft? If you break it, what comes out?

 

[KYTinpusher]

My first thought was an ovary.

I hope I am wrong. Did you break it open to see what it looks like inside?

 

[Ray_n_Debi]

Looks like a second egg to me.

 

[FlockO5ive]

Did the second egg have a shell? And for the record I am do not have the egg, they are from my chicken but it was a friend who found it.

She said it was soft, no shell around it.

 

[Ray_n_Debi]

It was an egg with a very soft shell. You will occasionally find a jelly type egg that does not have a shell.

 

[chooks4life]

The shell-less eggs I've seen were all white, not pink, even when the hen producing them was a brown-egg layer.

What was the inside of it like?

 

[Ray_n_Debi]

I don't think we will ever know unless it was opened. Ovaries are clusters of ova, normally yellow in color. I don't think it would be that. I am curious if she is still laying though.

 

[chooks4life]

It's just so reddish, like what I guess paint makers call dusky rose or some such, like there's blood vessels in it. It could be a tumor perhaps which had a small attachment and broke free into the body only to be incorporated into an egg. I don't know. If it's soft and so pink, I would be leaning towards 'tumor' --- or, as you said Ray n Debi, maybe an ovary. Not that it seems typical for that but nobody's confirmed anything yet. Strange, anyway.