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Not the best picture but it shows what I mean over a 4 day period.

If you have your coturnix separated, its a lot easier to notice. Each bird lays an identifiable egg. This pic is from a handful I had separated for a buyer. There's little dark bottom, marbled, moustache pattern, and the speckler. Some birds lay a much less speckled or plain egg, but certain features are easy to pick out.

I have other birds that are prone to laying double yolkers or nearly white eggs.

Not the best picture but it shows what I mean over a 4 day period. If you have your coturnix separated, its a lot easier to notice. Each bird lays an identifiable egg. This pic is from a handful I had separated for a buyer. There's little dark bottom, marbled, moustache pattern, and the speckler. Some birds lay a much less speckled or plain egg, but certain features are easy to pick out. I have other birds that are prone to laying double yolkers or nearly white eggs.

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There's got to be at least a little more to it, because some eggs have a speckle you can feel and scratch off while others are completely smooth yet marbled looking. Maybe it depends on when it occurs as the shell is developing.

Goddamn it, now I have to do some research!

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the egg shell is very soft and pliable inside - it hardens as it leaves and probably will also lose outer markings

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I've had underdeveloped eggs fall out while butchering. Sometimes a nearly transparent egg. There's a membrane under the shell, like a rubber balloon that prevents you from cracking it like a regular chicken egg. That membrane is opaque white, so I assume you'd have to catch it just right for it to be translucent.

Next time I have an oddity like that, I'll definitely post it!

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if they lay their eggs in a pool of water, the eggs will still be soft and rubbery