Back to square one

[JerryBerry]

My Egyptians last year laid a weird long egg that never hatched after 130 days at 31 degrees celsius.

We waited an entire year for another egg and we get the same weird long egg shape which we suspect is infertile again. Don’t understand what I’m doing wrong.

It’s cooking, well wait and see.

 

[Yvonne G]

@Will - any words of wisdom for Jerry?

 

[Kapidolo Farms]

@Will - any words of wisdom for Jerry?

I have not had the Egyptians I care for lay eggs. So I have no direct species experience.

That said, I would not think you are doing 'something wrong' at all. I'll figure these are the first eggs from the female, that may be a factor? It could be that this is what the individual does, and may never lay a more round egg.

I have a few female pancakes that often lay weird eggs too. I group house them and do not know if it is the exact same female, or something a few might do?

The good news is she is laying. It is my understanding Egyptians often lay more than one egg per clutch, like 3 to five, but much literature says 1 - 5. Maybe you could increase dietary calcium and offer exposure to UV light, natural or artificial.

A narrative on the enclosure and your husbandry might provide some insight.