An Eggnigma: An Egg Within an Egg

Fran Vincent, a 54 year old woman from Devon, England, cracked open an egg to make a cake and found …. another egg inside of it!

Fran, a factory worker from Seaton, Devon, said: "I thought it looked a bit big - I thought it might have been a duck egg at first.

"I cracked it open and out came the white and yolk but inside was another egg in its shell. I have never seen anything like it before - they’re almost like twins."

David Lanning from a poultry farm explained how it could happen:

"As it was being formed it passed down through the hen’s oviduct - the passage from the ovaries to the outside of the body - where the shell is made.

"In young hens, ovulating can be quite irregular. The hen has obviously ovulated quickly twice. The second egg has caught up with the first and the shell has formed around the two of them.

"It’s more common with young hens. It’s unusual and doesn’t happen that often. But it is extremely rare for it to reach the shop shelf."

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February 16, 2008 at 9:07 pm by Alex
Category: Animal, Food & Drinks

13 comments to "An Eggnigma: An Egg Within an Egg"

Pudifoot
February 16th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
Ok, that would freak me out.
ted
February 16th, 2008 at 11:45 pm
Why wouldn’t the second egg have cracked at the same time?

Something is rotten…
VonSkippy
February 17th, 2008 at 1:46 am
Maybe it’s just a “ghost” of an egg (you know those brit’s and their ghost stories).
webrunner
February 17th, 2008 at 1:55 am
So what came first? the egg or the egg?
Pudifoot
February 17th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
i wonder how have the second egg contains a third egg…. no THAT would be wild!
Avier
February 17th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
That’s normal!!!
today people buy eggs in the supermarket, and those are low quality eggs. If have a farm and have your own high quality eggs, this is normal. Maybe it happens once or twice a year, at least for me, having only 5 chickens.
Tempscire
February 17th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
That is nifty. First time I’ve ever heard such could happen, for all that it’s apparently not uncommon.
Lea
February 17th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
I feel like I’ve read this before…
CheeseDuck
February 17th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
Neato!
Radin
February 17th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
The Easter Bunny is getting original at hiding his eggs.
marieissah
February 18th, 2008 at 3:45 am
hhhmhmmm??
SB
February 18th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
My dad’s aunt worked at a poultry farm and got to take home irregular eggs if she wanted to. So she would come home with long eggs, mini eggs, bumpy eggs, and really big eggs with two or three little yolks in them. If you own chickens you tend to see some funny eggs too, but that’s a really weird one.

Re: ted, it makes sense that you might think it was fake because it wasn’t cracked, but usually people crack eggs rather gently along the size to avoid loose shells that you have to pick out of the mixing bowl. Plus, the fluid that was already in there probably cushioned the smaller egg from damage.
ted
February 18th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
SB: I actually wondered if the inner egg was as developed as the outer one - perhaps its shell was not as hard and more resilient.

If enough of you say it’s real, I’ll believe you.

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