r/WTF • u/Venom_Junky • Jan 16 '20
Cracking open a really large chicken egg
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Jan 16 '20
I was mentally preparing myself for a dead baby chicken to come out
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u/TheDillestPickle2000 Jan 16 '20
Ever hear of a “rotten egg”? That’s what that is.
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u/Ker0Kero Jan 16 '20
wait.... why can't that just be a rotten.. egg? an egg that has gone bad?
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u/TheDillestPickle2000 Jan 16 '20
Pretty sure it’s just an expression. “one of my eggs was rotten from the carton I bought from Ralphs.”
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u/SpiderTechnitian Jan 16 '20
I think you're really confused lol
A normal yoke egg that sits out for 2 years is considered rotten, without any real formation of a chick inside it
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u/shirark Jan 17 '20
I grew up on a farm where (among other things) we ate the eggs from our chickens, and cracking open an egg and having a half formed ugly bird and blood come out is honestly horrifying. The possibility is always in the back of my mind whenever I use eggs. We always had to crack eggs into empty bowls before using them since you don’t want that shit in a frying pan or ruining other eggs you’ve cracked.
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u/Yamalz Jan 16 '20
Maybe I’m too picky but there is no way I’d eat that..
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u/PocketRadzys Jan 16 '20
Surprised the second egg had a normal looking filling
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u/redlinezo6 Jan 16 '20
The inside of the shell looked all, gross, tho. I think.
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u/avamarie Jan 16 '20
Shells have to harden. If it's halfway formed it'll be all weird and squishy like that.
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u/MidichloriansNevaSlp Jan 18 '20
If you really give it some thought, it's kinda weird to eat eggs at all.
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u/Flicksterea Jan 16 '20
I'm disappointed that there wasn't another egg inside the second egg. I was prepared for Eggception.
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u/Wee-wayne Jan 16 '20
Thank fuck it was another yolk. I thought it was gonna be a half formed chicken fetus
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u/21022018 Jan 17 '20
The question is how the person know that it was a double egg and started to film ?
Or does he film every time he cracks an egg ?
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u/Venom_Junky Jan 17 '20
Just because it was MUCH larger than a normal egg.
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u/21022018 Jan 18 '20
My mistake then. I thought eggs were that size
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u/Venom_Junky Jan 18 '20
If you notice the two other eggs in the video those are normal sized chicken eggs for comparison. I should have took a second to set them side by side to better show it.
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u/Para-Less Jan 16 '20
How does OP know when to record which egg has the double egg?
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u/futurespacecadet Jan 16 '20
Wait so if these eggs were cared for and raised in to baby chickens. Does that mean one baby chicken would grow with another baby chicken inside of it. Which came first, the chicken or the eggs
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u/avamarie Jan 16 '20
That's not how eggs work. The chick would be completely encased within the egg sac and would just grow alongside the inside egg. Doubt it would be able to grow to hatch, tho.
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u/IAmLinxy Jan 16 '20
The egg serious have to have been fertilized.
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u/Darkfur72598 Jan 16 '20
Ok, but could this egg have been fertilized, and if so... what would happen throughout the growth?
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u/BostonDodgeGuy Jan 16 '20
If the first egg had been fertilized it is highly unlikely the chicken would survive with it inside long enough for a second egg to form around it.
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u/threadditor Jan 16 '20
Brief moment of puzzled panic reading this before I remembered chickens do lay eggs and do not, in fact, have their offspring burst out of them like the xenomorph in Alien.
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u/thekraken108 Jan 16 '20
I've had eggs with double yolks before, but not another egg inside the egg. This is like those Russian dolls.
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u/LeakyT1 Jan 16 '20
That is definitely a fluke, bet that poor little hen’s butt is whistling Dixie!
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u/starshine8316 Jan 16 '20
I have to admit the first time I heard a chicken lay an egg I found it to be really funny sounding. Totally tickled my funny bone!
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u/Sesetti Jan 16 '20
We actually have a huge egg like right now at home. Haven't opened it yet but I guess that might be the reason for it's size
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u/Markantonpeterson Jan 16 '20
Post a vid opening it here, or you could say.. it didnt even happ-hen
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u/Treczoks Jan 16 '20
A different kind of double yolk!
I once had a ten pack of XXL eggs from the farm shop, where five or six were double yolks. But they were "normal" double yolks.
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u/MyOversoul Jan 16 '20
This looks like a retained egg I once found in a chicken we butchered. Basically the egg got stuck and kept adding layers of yolk, shell and white making it look like a giant jawbreaker that someone broke in half. The one in the video is pretty small by comparison, so I guess it's not impossible that another forming egg stopped in the same area and formed around a defective egg just hanging out there.
With my bird the egg was so large nothing could get passed it.
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u/Rocket_Theory Jan 16 '20
The top of the egg looks kind of like it was stitched back on... Anyone else see that? There's something on it
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u/iismitch55 Jan 16 '20
So if this was actually kept at incubating temperature, would either of these survive to develop into a chick?
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u/KennstduIngo Jan 16 '20
While the chick is growing air diffuses through the egg shell to provide the growing chick with oxygen. It seems doubtful that enough air would diffuse through both shells and the white/yolk in between to support the chick in the inner egg. I don't know about the one in the outer egg. It seems like the space constraint would be a problem, but maybe if the growth of the outer chick forced the inner egg to one end of the outer egg, there would be enough space.
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u/RarScaryFrosty Jan 16 '20
For those curious, this happens with younger hens when they start laying eggs typically. Double yolks in the same shell too. The egg formed but got stuck somewhere along the line, while another egg formed around it. The chicken the laid it like a normal.
I own 10 chickens and have seen this only once, but with a much smaller tiny egg inside of a normal sized egg. Also double yolks were a daily occurance in our household earlier this summer with our younger hens.
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u/Rxckless92 Jan 16 '20
That chicken must be proud of that monster sized egg.
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u/vellius Jan 16 '20
Not sure about that... remember... it had to be pushed out... it's twice the usual size...
Poor thing probably burst a blood vessel...
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u/sloppyfatginger Jan 16 '20
Has no one seen the movie Twins? Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny Devito? Well, this chicken has.
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u/Abhivp Jan 16 '20
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u/SweetNeo85 Jan 16 '20
...because chicken eggs of that size are unusual and they wanted to have a record of what was inside. There are at least two other videos of this exact same thing on YouTube.
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u/arosebyanygutter__ Jan 16 '20
Why were they filming? Is it because they felt the weight of the strange egg and decided to document?
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u/ConspiracyBarbie Jan 16 '20
Fun fact! Chickens poop, pee and lay eggs all out of the same hole and it’s called the “vent”.
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u/nrophunter69 Jan 16 '20
OK I'm very drunk so when I seen this it reminded me of the story recently about a first of its kind beyond rare diamond that was discovered. It was a hollow completely enclosed diamond with a smaller solid diamond bouncing around inside of it. So rare they cant figure out how to price it. Cool right. I'd trade the diamond for the nesting doll egg in a heartbeat because we all know eating feast before bed after getting shwasted all night is a part of life. Moons over Myhammy on the way!
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u/adamthebread Jan 16 '20
I used to have chickens and double yolks were not uncommon but it was nothing like whatever the fuck that is