Comments on: Egg Inside An Egg

By: Paul Njoki

Paul Njoki — Sat, 02 May 2009 08:15:19 +0000

I stay in Entebbe Uganda.
On 1st May 2009 I was served with a normal sized chicken egg. On cracking the egg open, I found a small egg in side the bigger egg! I thought that may be there was no york inside the bigger egg but to my surprise there was a york not only inside the bigger egg but also inside the small one. The york in the smaller egg was white in colour as opposed the the normal yellowish normal color of the york in the bigger (outer) egg. Does anybody know what may have caused an egg to develop inside another egg?

By: JasonG

JasonG — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:11:44 +0000

This happened to me last week. My five year old, while visiting his grand parents, collected some eggs from a neighbor's farm. One was quite large and the chicken's owner told my son it would be a double yoker, but when we opened it there was another egg inside.
The outer egg has white but no yolk. The inside egg was totally normal.

By: DOJ

DOJ — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:00:15 +0000

Inside the second egg is a tiny wooden Russian doll.

By: SenorMysterioso

SenorMysterioso — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:53:15 +0000

Inside the second egg was a tiny man playing a tiny harpsichord

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:48:58 +0000

...and the chicken walked funny the rest of it's life.

By: Him

Him — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:09:06 +0000

Wow, double omelet.

By: kits

kits — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:07:47 +0000

I have seen this on this site: http://www.poultryhelp.com/oddeggs.html

the second egg will have no yolk!

By: JohnP

JohnP — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 11:17:43 +0000

@Robolasse

I'm picturing that scene from Alien

But I bet inside egg #2 there is an Egg #3

By: Robolasse

Robolasse — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 08:59:36 +0000

I wonder what would have happened if the egg would have been hatched. Would egg #2 have hatched too, inside egg/chicken #1?

By: Johnny Cat

Johnny Cat — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 04:31:26 +0000

@Dan

That's true, and it's been my pet answer for decades.

By: Ali S.

Ali S. — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 04:23:42 +0000

In humans this would be like one twin growing in the other twin as embryos...correct?

By: Dan Smith

Dan Smith — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 03:57:52 +0000

^^ Eggs came first. Dinosaurs laid eggs for millions of years before chickens evolved.

I bet there is white and yolk yellow inside the regular egg, just like a regular egg!

By: Johnny Cat

Johnny Cat — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 03:52:49 +0000

There's a totally awesome "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" lesson to be learned here, I just can't quite grok it.