Who knew making eggs could be such an adventure! Just click through to see what can pop out in time for breakfast!
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Egg Ception
YouTube In a video uploaded to YouTube, a wife cracks open a "big egg," while her husband looks on to see another egg right inside of it--with its own yolk. Later, he writes in the caption, "I can't believe it didn't kill my hen."
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Inside Out Egg
via Imgur According to the person who posted this photo on Reddit, the egg was originally inside out. And so the person made an upside down fried egg. Pretty cool!
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Triple Yolk
via Imgur Hens form eggs every 16 to 24 hours. If a hen ovulates too quickly, then an egg may have more than one yolk. Usually, you see double ones. This is a triple!
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Meat spot
via Imgur Occasionally, eggs contain meat spots, which are actually bits of tissue from the oviduct or ovaries. Usually, they're small, but sometimes they're pretty big (and gross, like this one).
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Tiny Yolks
via Imugr This hard-boiled egg had very small yolks!
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Purple Egg
via Imgur This purple egg yolk is probably is a blood clot. The clot got large enough so it ended up in the oviduct (the chicken's Fallopian tube), where it was coated with a shell.
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Red Eyed Egg
via Imgur A bright red yolk may mean the hen may have an injury in her reproductive organs. Or the hen may have eaten something that turned the yolk red.
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Store Bought Vs Farm Fresh Egg
via Imgur The yolk's color depends on what the hen's been eating. If the feed has more corn, the yolk will be darker; more wheat, it'll be lighter. The nutritional quality is the same for any color.
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Hard Object In Yolk
via Imgur Little bits of hard, rock-like objects can be shells. Or bits of tissue.
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Mini Egg Inside Egg
via Imgur This may be another example of an egg within an egg. The smaller one seems to be lacking a shell, which can happen (a weird quirk in the egg-laying system of a hen).
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Egg Within Egg
via Twitter Sometimes hens get shocked or stressed, causing an already formed egg to go back up the duct where it's absorbed by another yolk.