ummm, yeah...or What the heck????

[Just-Moxie]

Too funny! Last year I had my game hens laying in a nest box on my laundry porch. Their rooster thought he was soooo smart to show them that box sitting in there...(pst....right out the kitchen door ). I haven't gotten any monster eggs yet though.

 

[MontyJ]

I cracked the monster egg open today. Turns out, it was an egg within an egg. I have pics I'll post in the morning.

 

[baymule]

You got a two-fer!

 

[bj taylor]

I got my first egg from my newest bunch of girls today. a little bitty thing next the grown up girl's big brown eggs. it was so cute.

 

[MontyJ]

You got a two-fer!

More like a one and a halfer...two shells, two whites, one yolk in the inner egg. The inner egg was the size of a regular egg. Really weird.

 

[897tgigvib]

An egg inside of another egg?

When I was a wee little kid and found out about the birds n the bees nobody said anything like that happening!

 

[journey11]

Cool! I've heard of those happening (a rare occurance.) Takes those pullets awhile to get their plumbing in order. Can't wait to see the pic.

 

[MontyJ]

Pics not very good, but here it is. Large egg, within a very large egg:



And what was inside the inner egg:



The outer eggshell was fairly thin. The inner eggshell was normal thickness with a normal yolk inside. I think I prefer double yolks to double shells. Come to think of it, the chicken probably does too

 

[journey11]

I think I'd have to feed that one back to the chickens. Doesn't look very appetizing!

 

[bj taylor]

that poor girl had to work on that one for awhile.