All my marans eggs have a blood spots, what the heck?

[moetrout]

Funny, but I never realized until reading this, but I do believe all of our Marans eggs have blood spots too! I just cook them up. Once cooked you would never know it and I don't tell the family either. I am sure selling them would be hard unless you find someone who is from the country or a hunter maybe who would be more accepting of this.

 

[Dutchess]

Yep, they take forever to lay too!
I have a cuckoo marans that lays beautiful dark brown eggs, but there are meat/blood spots in most of them!

I don't mind and I don't sell my eggs so, no big deal for me.

 

[Chicnsrthebest]

Just so happens it was hunters who got them and got grossed out.

Mind you, I have a couple of people who say they don't care, they just remove the spots.
I don't mind a little spot, either, but too much and I'm grossed out, too.




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[LT]

I have one Cuckoo Maran, and her first eggs had blood/meat spots but now they don't usually. But of our 8 chickens, hers are the only ones that have ever had blood spots. I just feed those to my husband with extra pepper...he never knows the difference.

 

[RHRanch]

In the past I have had Marans from some of these great lines, but I think inbreeding and egg color has trumped production and vigor for many breeders. I had all but sworn off Marans until a good friend of mine gave me her stock - she told me they were regular layers and lay a super dark egg. I didn't believe it. To my surprise, it was true, so now I am lucky enough to have Marans that are good producers and have good egg color. Have had no blood spot complaints, either. I think the quality and utility of the birds has a lot to do with the practices of the breeders. Also, I think most marans nowadays have some heritage of those famous lines, but if they are all just from those lines, they are really lacking genetic diversity. I am planning to selectmy breeeders at this point not from lines, but from production, egg color, vigor and appearance, in that order. Just my preference.

 

[NewHen]

I have BCM and blue Marans and exchequer leghorns all in the same coop with pretty frequent blood spots.