If I recall correctly you can do this to an egg by soaking it in vinegar for about 24 hours.

Or just find a reptile egg. They're already soft.

Doesn

Silly Putty anyone?

I'll try that vinegar trick tomorrow and see if it works.

Soaking an egg in vinegar is going to produce one smelly egg.

I did the vinegar thing once for a school science experiment. It softens the egg enough you can bounce it on a table(not too high). It didnt make it go wrinkly, but I'm sure there would be a process that would do it (it soften it with vinegar then dehydrate it)

eggs (Chicken's specifically here) come in all sorts of strange shapes.

The odd ones get sorted out so they don't appear in supermarkets etc.

Odd shape eggs aren't uncommon, so could be real but it's a bit 'so what?'

That

We used to raise chickens, and did see unusual eggs like this occasionally. I'd vote for real.

I bet they make the chickens eyes water...

Looks like a walnut to me.

Looks more like a Rocky Mountain Oyster.

Big deal. My Grandpa's got two of 'em. Swingin'.

It hasn't got the face of Jesus on it. That's pretty unique isn't it.

Soaking in Vinegar for shell softening, AND re-hardened in a solution of Baking Soda and Water. The old trick of putting an egg into a narrow-neck glass bottle. It can also be "modeled" by hand before re-hardening. I did it many years ago and it is, either way, a good show-and-tell item.

I have chickens, and we get all kinds of strange eggs occasionally. Especially young birds tend to lay odd eggs at first: very small eggs, eggs with soft rubbery shells, even eggs without shells. So I doubt it's a fake.

Having grown up on a chicken farm, wrinkled eggs are the result of the egg hardening before it has a chance to form it's normally smooth shell.

I've seen eggs without shells, shells without anything in them and all sorts of egg-oddities.

Egg shells don't start off hard inside the chicken, just waiting for an egg yolk to form. It's all part of the cycle.

Didn't we go over all this with the spoon-shaped egg?
Eggs come out of the chicken in all sorts of odd-shaped (or odd-colored) forms, but the uglier and/or stranger ones are sorted out and never sent to the grocery store. Instead, they're sold to bakers, producers of processed foods, pet food companies, and so on. Which is to say, you've eaten lots of eggs that look like these (unless you're a vegan or allergic to eggs), but you ate them mixed into foods where you never saw the appearance of the orginal egg.

Oops, I meant, "the original egg."

Soaking an egg in vinegar eats away the outer-shell, the rubbery part that remains is the membrane.

Hi. I grew up on a farm and the egg is quite likely real. I saw some pretty weird looking eggs when growing up, even one (with the shell not fully hardened) that popped out of a chicken after it was bitten in half by a hog.
I say its the real McCoy.
Buck

This is a simple experiment that i performed in the ninth grade. You first put the egg in vinegar to dissolve the shell. Then you put it in Karo syrup and the egg get wrinkled because of osmosis. The Karo syrup is a hypertonic solution so it makes the egg wrinkle up.

Hi, I am the person in the picture. Seriously. It was on a farm in Kansas where my grandpa found it on his farm. My uncle said it was because the chicken has sand on her butt. It is very real, and we have also had green eggs out there also. Absolutely real.

i also have two hens that lay eggs like this and im not sure what the problem is but would like to find out.

I have chickens, and i found an egg like that the other day, except the wrinkles were all around the middle. We too find eggs without shells, tiny eggs, green, pink, and orange eggs, eggs with bumps or spots, long ones, two yolk-ers, no yolk-ers, the list goes on. we even had a chicken lay an egg that looked like 2 eggs fused together. i know this COULD be real, no to say that is, but it is quite possible.

I have had perfect eggs from my Rhode Island Reds
for the last two years and now one of them is producing wrinkled obb long eggs as shown in the URL: link provided. They brake very easily so their is definately a calcium shortage but why in only one bird, they all have the same diet.

URL: link provided.

I have one chicken that suddenly lays eggs without a shell, The eggs were normal beforehand. I do feed shellgrit and the other chickens have very strong shells. Does anyone know the reason?

the other chickens also eat the shelless one and since we only have 4 chickens we would like the egg.

I know this, because I find the membrane in the morning in the hutch. She must also lay the egg very early, as I go there at 5 in the morning,

Kind regards Mascha

I have wrinkled eggs from our chickens. I actually found this page on the internet searching for possible cause. YES it is definitely true. I hope I find the cause. We have four chickens only one of them is wrinkled.

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