CalituckyLove
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- Apr 15, 2015
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This is what I got this morning. Seems like too much blood. Definitely not eating , but what might cause it?
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I always got a chuckle out of people freaking out over this like its gross. I always mention do you know why your steak is red, because its full of blood so why would one little blood spot in an egg bother you lol.
It's not normal but it is natural. I use to set for hours and hours in a darkened room candling eggs on an mechanical egg candelier [slash] grader. I never learned why some eggs had blood spots.I'm not so much grossed out by it, just curious as to WHY it's happening. I gave a friend some eggs and she said one basically had blood instead of white. That doesn't seem normal. Should I be investigating the hen who laid it??
I know it grosses me out too! But there is nothing wrong with the egg or hen! I would educate your buyers about it, most of them probably already know, and keep track of the color and where it's being laid. Maybe you'll catch who it is.I have had this a couple of times from I think the same hen. It did put me off a bit. It was a fair bit of blood and as far as the comment about steak, I'm a vegetarian lol. Stuff like that just does gross me out. First time it was me who cracked the egg, second time i was told by my grandmother that she had cracked an egg and it had blood in it. Didn't bother her-though she got another egg and didn't eat that one. I worry about giving those eggs away to others and them finding blood in it. We don't have many chickens so do give those eggs away. Not sure which chicken it is or could be both, we have 2 Buff Orpingtons and it is one of their eggs that it has happened with.
One of my Buff's just finished being broody so I'm wondering if maybe it was the first egg she laid again after a few weeks. I thought also maybe the cockerel causes damage sometimes and that results in a bloody egg?