A strange egg

[Happy Chick Home]

I found this egg the other day when collecting eggs. It is tiny and the fragile shell had a hole. Inside is what looks like an embryo. The pictures aren't great but best I can do. What appears to be a blood spot in the pics doesn't look like it really. Appears to be an embryo body, head and red thing where a beak would be.
It appears that a cell was fertilized and not packaged and released immediately, developed internally, then expelled or maybe more like excreted as a defect.
In my 16 months of chicken raising I've had two sex reverse hens so it won't surprise me if this is a "thing" too. What "thing"?
TIA

 

[Happy Chick Home]

More pics

 

[EggSighted4Life]

Appears to be an embryo body,

Parthenogenesis, self fertilization IS a thing in poultry indeed, well documented.

I'm not seeing an embryo development which starts first with blood vessels.. I'm not seeing any blood vessels.

I think they are meat spots, seen near the bottom of the page in the following link...

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/common-egg-quality-problems.65923/

 

[Happy Chick Home]

Wow! Thanks for the link. Very helpful.
I expect it doesn't matter - this little egg had no yolk at all. The "embryo" is white not yellow; the yellow being an artifact from the poor quality camera.
Makes sense that a meat spot might be excreted like this. An embryo should have some yolk - somewhere.

 

[aart]

An embryo should have some yolk - somewhere.

Yes...and veins.
So just a meat spot.