Cube Mark One Run

[good_egg]

Not content with laying pretty coloured eggs, Connie appears to have started painting her own! Any ideas what caused this....?

 

[sjp]

it could be a thin shelled egg but more likely and egg at the end of a laying cycle I've got a couple that lay one like that about every 7 - 10 eggs depending on who laid it you might find she has a day or two off to reset the system. there the eggs that get rejected at the grading stage in a commercial egg plant there nowt wrong with them they just don't look right. I like to include a few in any display I do just to show folk what real eggs look like and what gets rejected

[Mrs_B]

That's an interesting (and pretty!) looking egg - I haven't ever seen one like that before

 

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[suebee]

I've never seen a two tone egg either! How interesting!

[Chicken deficient]

Any ideas what caused this....?

 

I seem to remember reading that the blue colour is just on the outer surface of the egg shell? In which case, perhaps the egg went through Connie's shell gland a bit too quick for the last bit to have the colour laid down on the shell? I think sudden surprises can cause this, like a loud airplane going overhead!