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#1 10-28-2009 06:38:00
- ShadowsRider
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Double Shelled eggs??
Hello, everyone!
I've just recently registered here because we've had something interesting happen with one of our laying hens and I was hoping to find some information about it. It's not anything bad or urgent, simply interesting and curious.
We've had chickens for years, and I've seen a lot.....but this is a new one on me. Currently we have a mixed flock of Americaunas, Light Brahmas, White Rocks, and Buttercups. We have two roosters, a two year old Americauna and an six month old Japanese Phoenix.
Recently, one of either the White Rocks or the Brahmas (because it is a brown egg) has twice, now, laid an egg that was double SHELLED. By this, I mean that there was a shell, with a yolk in it, and inside that, another complete, normal shell (though slimey with the outside shell's yolk) with a yolk in it. Now, I've heard and seen double and even triple YOLKS inside a single shell, but has anyone ever experienced an egg.....inside of an egg?? 
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#2 10-28-2009 07:55:18
- Hencackle
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Re: Double Shelled eggs??
It happens, although rarely. Somebody posted a YouTube video of the egg-within-an-egg. Click here. Wow, you've had triple yolked eggs. How much larger was that one compared to a double yolker? That must have been quite a surprise. I'm not positive, but I think the record for the most yolks within an egg is 9. Anybody else know for sure?
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#3 10-28-2009 07:59:45
- BantyChickMom
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Re: Double Shelled eggs??
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I had an egg in an egg a while back. the one you could see was only the membrane but it had a perfect egg insde.
It is a weird thing to see!
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#4 10-28-2009 08:05:42
- ShadowsRider
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Re: Double Shelled eggs??
Hencackle wrote:
It happens, although rarely. Somebody posted a YouTube video of the egg-within-an-egg. Click here.
Rare.........and one of mine has done it twice in a month. At least I guess it was one. What are the odds I've got TWO hens that have done that within a month of each other? 
Wow, you've had triple yolked eggs. How much larger was that one compared to a double yolker? That must have been quite a surprise.
It wasn't as larger as I would have thought. But it was a surprise. The kids got a kick out of it.
Thank you. 
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#5 10-28-2009 08:07:02
- ShadowsRider
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Re: Double Shelled eggs??
BantyChickMom wrote:
Thank you.
I had an egg in an egg a while back. the one you could see was only the membrane but it had a perfect egg insde.
It is a weird thing to see!
That does sound even weirder than what I had, lol.
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