Is this normal?

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HeatherTheMommy

HeatherTheMommy

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Im totally new to chickens and some of my hens just began to lay. Is this normal? I found a blood spot in the yolk of one. We had a rooster but rehomed him about a month ago. Is this a ferrilized egg????
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A blood spot isn't a fertile egg. It is just when a blood vessel ruptures in the infundibulum or magnum of the reproductive tract. It happens from time to time.

A sign of a fertile egg is when the little white dot on the yolk (blastodisc) becomes a halo (blastoderm)
http://www.edencsd.org/Page/1496

You don't see blood spots in store eggs any more because the automated sorting candles and rejects them.
 
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Ive read that continous lighting can cause it? I do have a red light in my coop at night that comes on at 7pm. If i dont put it on they dont go into the coop. Should i turn it off once everyone is in the coop?
 
I never heard that but continuous light is a problem. They need a light/dark cycle just like all animals. Yes, turn the light off once they're inside. After a few days they should go in without a light.
 

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