I’d definitely classify this as a once-in-a-lifetime event!
I had never even heard of it!
Keeping chickens for our own farm fresh eggs is wonderful. We love how rich and fresh the eggs are, and knowing where they have been and what they have been eating.
I am also amused by the variety we get. When my son comes in with that day’s eggs, he will usually put any unique eggs in the door of the fridge, apart from the others, because he knows I love seeing them before they are cracked open and eaten. Sometimes they are abnormally small or large (see below), flat on one side, lopsided, or what-have-you.
A few months ago, I noticed we were getting low on eggs in the house, so I sent my egg boy up to the barn for more. Then I noticed one rather large, blue, Auracana egg in the door and decided I’d be happy with just one, mixed with some bacon and onion, fried rather than boiled, as I had originally planned.
He and I had a discussion as to whether or not it would be a double-yolker or not, and if I should eat one or two.
I got my onion and bacon all friend up then, in suspense about whether or not there would indeed be two yolks, he and I watched closely as I cracked it into the pan…
I began to express my surprise and disappointment at the fact that only one fairly normal yolk poured out.
Then…
KERPLOP!
Out came yet another egg, in a shell and all, from within that one!!!
For realzies.
We sat there, stunned, trying to make sense of what we had just seen.
Then I just started laughing, incredulous!
Of course, I called my 86 year old Grandma right away and
even she had never heard of it!
I take pictures of oddity eggs and flat out pretty eggs all of the time. I have quite a catalog of them within my photo files. But, since I have so many, I had refrained from taking one of this before I cracked it open. I was sure sorry about that afterwards!
I took a picture of the little one inside the larger shell for comparison.
Here is the larger one pieced back together.
I regret to say that we put off opening the little one,
and either it started out empty,
or whatever may have been in it dried up.
Because it was empty.
I looked it up online and could only find a few other cases of this. It is called “Ovum in Ovu”. Since it is so rare, no one is quite sure how or why it happens, but there is speculation about it and at least one scientist seems to be pretty sure why.
You can read about Ovum In Ovu and watch a video at this link, Big Egg,
and see other instances of it at the links below.
Odd Eggs (scroll down to see egg within an egg)
Astounding Discovery in Sri Lanka
Or just search “egg within an egg” and you can view what is out there.
Pretty cool and freaky huh? I consider myself privileged and blessed to experience something so rare!
... I keep thinking I should buy a lottery ticket, LOL!
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