Are these fertilized?

[Welshies]

You only get blood if the egg starts incubating (or the hen happens to get a little bit of blood or whatever during the egg making process).

Ohhh... but there's that red dot. Is that a blood spot?

 

[Welshies]

What do I or the OP care if the bird sleffed off some ductwork? They said it was a new to lay pullet so It's all on par in my thinking. Blood spots are nothing more than loose material on the oval wall (don't really want to get more specific as I just scramble at that point) that is exited into the egg.

Ok, I'll get a bit more specific...If I'm cracking eggs for over easy on toast and see a meat spot I'll quickly change gears and crack a lot more eggs for a scrambled breakfest. Don't tell my friends and familily it's because I'm trying to increase the odds I'm not the one to eat it! Nothing wrong with it but as the cook I know typically where it is unless scrambled....roulette...

Ummm... what?

 

[sylviethecochin]

Ohhh... but there's that red dot. Is that a blood spot?

Red spots are generally caused by the hennish equivalent of a period. They get rid of their passage walls every once in a while, and that's the cause of most of your blood spots.

 

[Mylied]

Ohhh... but there's that red dot. Is that a blood spot?

Yes. Egghead explained it a little more in depth. That spot is nothing to do with fertility. Just something that happened during the egg making process. No big deal. I'll just mix in blood spots. But I will pick out meat pieces (or whatever the technical term is). I'm already iffy on eggs, I don't want to scramble in ick pieces, even though it wouldn't hurt.

That's one of the reasons for the candling license when you want to officially sell eggs. You can weed out all the weird eggs.

 

[Egghead_Jr]

look up "meat spot".

 

[lazy gardener]

I agree that the eggs are fertile. Your cockerel has gone through chicken puberty, as have your pullets. As such, they can produce chicks if the eggs that are fertile get successfully incubated.

However, your birds have not yet earned their titles of Rooster and Hen. They earn those badges when they have their first birthday!

I would not be jumping to incubate pullet eggs. Give them time to get some size, so that the chicks will stand the best chance of being big robust healthy chicks.

A blood spot or meat spot has absolutely nothing to do with fertility.

 

[Chicky-bock-bock-mamma]

I agree that the eggs are fertile. Your cockerel has gone through chicken puberty, as have your pullets. As such, they can produce chicks if the eggs that are fertile get successfully incubated.

However, your birds have not yet earned their titles of Rooster and Hen. They earn those badges when they have their first birthday!

I would not be jumping to incubate pullet eggs. Give them time to get some size, so that the chicks will stand the best chance of being big robust healthy chicks.

A blood spot or meat spot has absolutely nothing to do with fertility.

Thank you for the response, ya I am not ready to put new eggs in the incubator. I already have some little ones in there cookin