Snow had laid two days running so we weren’t expecting her to lay today. Her last three eggs have been almost normal with just a slight wobble in the shell. Her shells have a slight spiral groove in them.
Then this afternoon I saw something strange in the run. It had obviously come from Snow and caught her unaware as it was in the run. This meant it was dirty but I washed it gently to photograph it. It looked like three soft shells joined together, although the end of one felt like a knob of hard compressed shell.
The knob on the left is actually hard. When I pulled them all open the first two had two mini yolks in each of them and the last one, on the right, was just white.
Snow looks fine and normal at the moment. It feels to me as if Snow is producing far too many eggs in quick succession for her system to be able to cope with. This is something I have never come across before and I can’t find anything like this on any of the chicken forums.
I have wondered before where the missing yolks went from the eggs inside eggs that only had a yolk on the inside one. It almost seems as if here they are! It’s all very odd.
It’s frustrating because her last three eggs seemed better. Something has obviously gone adrift inside her with her egg laying machinery. I can’t help thinking that this doesn’t bode well for her future but for now we have to just hope she can keep getting her oddities laid.
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This is indeed odd – never come across it before; let’s just hope that she continues to cope.
It’s so weird. I sometimes wonder why we seem to get the weirdest things in our small flock. I forgot to mention that Mango and Cloud are now both through their broody spell.