Another egg ??? what else is there?

[bulldog-girl]

I am new to having chickens. I have 12 grown hens and so far have not boiled thier eggs. The main reason is that in some of the eggs there is a bit of floating "schmutz" or somthing I can't identify anyway. I just pick it out and use the egg as normal. Does candleing expose the hidden "goodie" in the egg? I don't want to bite down on a boiled and and find a surprise. What are these little floaties anyway?

 

[chickflick]

They're blood spots. Nothing to worry about. Are they new layers? It should stop. At the beginning, my eggs had them too, but I haven't seen any in a long time.

 

[bulldog-girl]

Some of them are a year or a little older. The spots don't appear to look like blood. I have had a couple of those. These almost look like a peice of grain or something and some of the spots are white.:|

 

[Suess hens]

Do you have any roos around?
If you look at store bought eggs there is a white bit next to the yolk, I'm thinking that is what you are seeing...sometimes it has a "string" along with it?

 

[bulldog-girl]

No roos. The white thing is not the thing with the string. This is just a white piece of something floating around in the white. Oh well. I am sure we won't die if we eat it.

 

[Hangin Wit My Peeps]

LOL I don't even look at mine closely anymore...were just used to all the floatie's in the eggs. We haven't died yet

We have been eating those for years

prob actually pretty healthy for ya.