WTF is wrong with this egg?

[Pinkywoo]

Went to make breakfast and found this wrinkly monstrosity in the egg box! What's wrong with it?

nothing - eggs are sometimes like that - it can be that the hen is a little bit older or her first egg for a while but that is just how some come out.

That egg is like looking in a mirror.

I get eggs like that from one of my hens, they are fine.

I think it's if the chicken is deficient in calcium

Every day is a school day poultrykeeper.com/egg-problems/wrinkled-egg-shells/

I saw a programme where they showed eggs that were laid by startled chickens (eg if a fire engine went past with sirens) and the shells were softer!

i hear you 😂

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Is it a large egg? It looks fairly large. I have been buying large eggs all my life but this week changed to medium eggs as there's a current campaign on to raise awareness that large eggs hurt/damage the hens. Perhaps the wrinkly-ness is some sort of trauma?

This. It’s why they’re meant to have special grit. One of the young hens at my yard laid a shell-less egg one day, it was amazing it came out intact with just the membrane around it.

It's fine.

I used to work on a farm in an educational capacity with children. I am not an actual farmer. We used to sort the eggs in a machine and they came in small, medium or large from the same flock of hens.

That is the Voldermort of eggs !

Well I'm glad to hear that (apart from being spectacularly ugly) there's nothing wrong with it, I shall eat it tomorrow! Oshina yes it's fairly large but I do have small hands.

However if a mutant chicken beast comes out of it and enslaves mankind, then you'll only have yourselves to blame.

Weirdly enough I did some work experience at a farm and did the egg sorting! I can’t remember the exact details now, there was a thread on it last week. Something along the lines of over 50% of eggs sold are large, so there is pressure for the farmers to get the hens to lay larger eggs. But this is actually damaging the hens.

As I said it never even occurred to me before, but I changed my egg delivery from large to medium and will only buy medium in stores from now on.

I'm not very clever - can you explain how the farmers get the hens to lay the larger eggs on demand? Do the chickens get a bonus? I don't see how this could be achieved but am willing to learn.

Is it Dorian Greg's egg perhaps.

Ha ha ha ha 😬

Different breeds of chicken lay different looking eggs.

That's the egg of a Old Ballsack.

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Selective breeding. The same reason we have loads of different dog breeds and why all your fruit and vegetables taste good.

Selective breeding. Goldline hens (tehy have a lot of other names too - warrens etc) are your classic little red hen. They lay a large brown egg every day - up to 370 per year, they only live 3-4 years and only lay like that for 18months so egg farms dispatch them then. I keep pure rare breed chickens. Very varied eggs. They lay 1-7 a week but only for 6-8 months. The eggs are smaller and varied colours dependant on breed. They live 8-10 years and I have a few that are 12, 13 and 14yo.
Intensive farming is incredibly productive but at the expense of the animals.

Lol at ballsack 😂

https://www.bhwt.org.uk/blog/health-welfare/size-matters-our-latest-hen-welfare-awareness-campaign-is-underway-and-gaining-steam/

Found the website 👍🏻

One of our hens once laid what we now know is called a lash egg. Revolting to look at, don’t google it!
Never seen a wrinkly one though. It’s amazing; the variation we see between them, some big and some really small, on a daily basis.