What is this??

This spot that looks like blood was inside my BR first egg... It's kind of gummy,,,, I think it's blood? I know a fertile egg has spots sometimes, but I have no Roo!! Is this normal?

The flash is distorting things a bit - but it is likely just a small piece of tissue that came from along in the bird's repro tract as the egg formed. Nothing to be worried about.

Yes that is hard to see with that flash, but look through the internal defects portion of this link. Could be a meat spot or a blood spot. Perfectly normal. Commercial egg laying operations electronically candle their eggs looking for those things so a supermarket customer doesn’t get a surprise. Those “defective” eggs are normally sold to bakeries or similar place where they are beaten and the defect doesn’t show. They are safe to use but yes, there is a YUK! factor about them that make them unappetizing to many people.

Egg Quality Handbook
http://www.thepoultrysite.com/ourbooks/1/egg-quality-handbook/

That has nothing to do with a rooster. A rooster does not cause “spots” in the egg unless you incubate a fertile egg. If you gather your eggs every day you are not going to see “spots” due to the egg being fertile even if it was under a broody hen all day. If you leave it overnight under a broody and don’t get it until late the second day you might see some development. That myth that a rooster causes spots in an egg is pretty common on this forum, but it is just false.

Ok Wheeww!! Thank y'all!! I still ate the egg. Lol. I did kind of look like tissue..... The reason I thought that about Roo's was from this lady I was getting eggs from... She always told me to crack them open bf I used them to chk for spots, that the egg might be fertile.....

Thank you for correcting me!! . I love BYC, I learn something new everyday !

birdlady79 said:

Ok Wheeww!! Thank y'all!! I still ate the egg. Lol. I did kind of look like tissue..... The reason I thought that about Roo's was from this lady I was getting eggs from... She always told me to crack them open bf I used them to chk for spots, that the egg might be fertile.....

Thank you for correcting me!!

. I love BYC, I learn something new everyday !

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Not sure why she'd offer that - the only reason to really 'check' is if one has been negligent in collection and thinks there is a chance that setting and chick development may have begun - otherwise, a fertile egg eats just like an infertile one.