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It seems one of my layers had an artistic expression. While I've seen a bump of extra shell material on the end of an egg before, and even something resembling two concentric rings, in nine years of having laying hens I've never seen a swirl or spiral before. Pretty neat I think.

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Save it! That is so cool. It makes me wonder if the egg rotates during formation.
 
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Jordan Holland wrote:

It makes me wonder if the egg rotates during formation.

We have some Khaki Campbell ducks that when you look at the shell, you see a faint pattern of a spiral all the way up the shell. It isn't raised, but it's as if there is thinner shell and thicker shell bands.

So that suggests you may be right, at least in some birds.
 
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Jay Angler wrote:Jordan Holland wrote:

It makes me wonder if the egg rotates during formation.

We have some Khaki Campbell ducks that when you look at the shell, you see a faint pattern of a spiral all the way up the shell. It isn't raised, but it's as if there is thinner shell and thicker shell bands.

So that suggests you may be right, at least in some birds.



I'm amazed at how eggs even form at all. This is just mind-blowing!
 
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