Egg inside an egg.

[BillyJoe]

Egg inside an egg.

A news report tonight tells of a middle aged to elderly man cracking open his egg on Easter morning to find another egg inside. From what I can gather, the only other thing inside the first egg was albumen. He has not yet cracked open the inner egg and intends to take it to experts to have a look at.

Has anyone ever heard of this happening before?

Is it even possible for it to happen?
(That is, is it necessarily a hoax?)

BillyJoe

 

[geni]

I've seen reports of multiple shells before.

 

[Mercutio]

I have never seen one, but am not terribly surprised by it. I have seen, in a friend's egg farm, double-yolked eggs, no-yolked eggs, and no-shelled eggs (they had the inner membrane, but no hard shell--they looked like translucent turtle eggs). So, there is certainly variability amongst eggs; this double-shelled egg would be cool, but I doubt it is a hoax.

 

[Hawk one]

It seems that there might even be a a plausible explanation for this phenomena. The story may still be a hoax, but at least it seems not to contradict what is currently known about eggs.

 

[BillyJoe]

Thanks,

After reading your replies and Hawks link as well as a few other internet references, I have decided that double-shelled eggs are both possible (an unshelled, prematurely-released egg colliding in the shell gland with an already shelled egg) and do occur. I wonder what the odds are?

BJ

 

[Rob Lister]

Thanks,

After reading your replies and Hawks link as well as a few other internet references, I have decided that double-shelled eggs are both possible (an unshelled, prematurely-released egg colliding in the shell gland with an already shelled egg) and do occur. I wonder what the odds are?

BJ

Grandma said long ago that she once found bunches upon bunches of double-shelled eggs and it took her days to discovery why. She humorously attributed the oddity to my then five year-old dad and some of his friends playing a game of 'kick the chicken'. Her explaination pretty much concurs with the previous link. She assumed that the partially/thinly formed egg was...er...disrupted during the...er...game, and that another shell formed around it.