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Possible chimera egg? need advice/opinions

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Hello all! We woke up thismorning to another surprise batch of eggs from nibbler and possibly our golden albino c3p0..all of them looked the same as her last batches except this one. I've never seen one like it before but I've heard of chimera eggs and I'm wondering if this might be one. opinons or advice would be greatly appreciated
 

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I don't think that's anything to do with chimaerism, as that's usually only noticable after they hatch. It looks like some sort of tumor or eversion of the yolk sac.
 
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Oh I had just heard that chimaerism was caused by two eggs I'm one sack becoming one..the one egg has now absorbed the other two so it looks like there's only one egg In the sac now...
 
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Chimeras are two embryos fused. It happens in-utero (so to speak), not after the egg has already been laid.

The grey is definitely not a fertile egg. Eggs are either white or brown, not transparent grey.
 
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Alright...although the "grey" part actually is white it just looks grey in the photo due to poor lighting ..and the darker egg has completely fused with it...maybe it just absorbed the infertile egg?
 
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