Blood Speck in Egg

[Heartforchickens]

I have had a problem with some of my eggs since my girls began laying. Almost on a regular basis, I get an egg with a speck of what looks like blood in the egg. What causes this? It is not very appetizing looking, but I just scoop it out and eat them anyway. It makes me leary about giving my eggs away as I don't want to turn off anyone from eating them. Can anything be done to correct this? Thanks.

 

[terrilhb]

from GA. It happens sometimes in eggs. Welcome to my world. I have had people tell other people my eggs are bad because of this. They are good. Enjoy them

 

[math ace]

It is a blood spot and there are many causes.

It is harmless and we too scoop it out. I only have trouble with one breed of my hens. The rest have never givne me a blood spot.
It can be caused my genetics, stress, sudden shocks ( i.e. lights coming on in the chicken coop) and nutrional defencies.

Here is a link for more info . . . .


http://www.ca.uky.edu/smallflocks/Factsheets/Marketing/Blood_spot_eggs.pdf

 

[woodmort]

It is one of those things that happens more often than people realize (until they have their own birds) because commercial eggs are candled to eliminate any that have these or "meat" spots. (The discarded eggs go to bakeries, BTW.) It is just something that happens in the oviduct before the shell is added and is harmless--as above, pick it out with a spoon and use the egg--but grosses out some people. One thing it is not: it is not a developing embryo!

 

[KYGramma]

I was always told that meant it was fertilized....?

 

[kidd42]

We get them once in awhile also. We do the same, scoop it out and eat the rest. We had one egg last summer that was really bloody, of course that was the day the kids were cracking eggs for breakfast, and you would have thought they found a baby chick inside. We had alot of left over scrambled eggs that breakfast. Luckily the kids have short memories and forgot about it within a few days.

 

[Tuffoldhen]

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[Tuffoldhen]

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Nope!

 

[SassyKat6181]

My hens just started laying and all of the 1st timer eggs have had a little red spot in them. It seems to be only their very first egg laid though, each one after that has been clean. I just scoop it out.