Blood inside egg. Concerned.

[jnicholes]

We were making scrambled eggs today, when we noticed this. I don’t know which chicken laid this, but I’m wondering if that chicken is hurt somehow.

Is my chicken OK? Is this a concern?

 

[Yardmom]

Do you have a rooster? Would this egg have been warm for a couple days?

 

[jnicholes]

Do you have a rooster? Would this egg have been warm for a couple days?

No rooster. I don’t think it was warmed for a couple days, it was an old egg.

 

[Eggcessive]

It is from a small blood vessel breaking in the oviduct. I have experienced blood inside one chicken’s egg in the past. She was a wellsummer pullet who laid dark brown eggs. At first, it was not every egg, but after a couple of weeks, each egg had a lot of blood inside. Since only 2 hens laid that color egg, I just made sure that I didn’t share with friends or sell those eggs at my co-op. She prematurely stopped laying all together at 1 year of age for the rest of her life. Here is another thread about this problem:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/bloody-egg-inside-no-rooster-picture.1022253/

 

[jnicholes]

It is from a small blood vessel breaking in the oviduct. I have experienced blood inside one chicken’s egg in the past. She was a wellsummer pullet who laid dark brown eggs. At first, it was not every egg, but after a couple of weeks, each egg had a lot of blood inside. Since only 2 hens laid that color egg, I just made sure that I didn’t share with friends or sell those eggs at my co-op. She prematurely stopped laying all together at 1 year of age for the rest of her life. Here is another thread about this problem:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/bloody-egg-inside-no-rooster-picture.1022253/

Thanks for getting back. I’ve had no other bloody eggs like this, so I think it was just a one time event.

 

[Eggcessive]

Mine just did it occasionally at first, then daily, before stopping altogether. I usually took her eggs, cooked them and fed them back to the chickens or dogs. Let us know how it turns out, and good luck.