Blood spots in pullet eggs

[Chick0909]

I purchased 6 Point of Lay Isa Browns on May 1st and then have been laying for about 2 1/2 weeks. Is it normal for the eggs to have "blood" spots in them? There is no rooster with them. Thank you from a Newbie

 

[papajoe]

From what I've read, the blood spots are harmless and just means the eggs are really fresh...... and welcome from Louisiana!!

 

[donrae]

Yep, totally normal, especially in high production birds. Commercial operations candle their eggs so the general public doesn't realize how often it happens. It will usually stop after the first few months of laying.

 

[chickenychicken]

I agree with everyone who answered your question.
Pullets do this the most common but so do hens who are not pullets...every once and a while my hens who are all over a year old lay eggs that have red specks in them which are perfectly normal, sometimes a little bit of their food gets into the egg...which may sound weird but that is also normal and you can eat those eggs too.

 

[aart]

Blood spots are caused by a small blood vessel (not a 'bit of food'), or a larger one, breaking when the ova is released.
Most common in new and older layers, but can happen to any bird.

 

[chickenychicken]

I agree
I sometimes find alittle food in my chickens eggs or is this something else?

 

[aart]

I agree
I sometimes find alittle food in my chickens eggs or is this something else?

It's NOT chicken food that you find inside your eggs...it's probably anatomically impossible for that to happen.

There are blood spots and 'meat spots' that can be found in eggs once in a while...it's either blood and/or tissue broken off from inside the reproductive tract.

 

[chickenychicken]

That is what I find sometimes, it usually looks like food even though it's that.

 

[Ridgerunner]

If you check out the egg quality handbook you can see some information on blood spots and meat spots. This is written more for the commercial industry than us so all those possible causes won’t apply to us but it is fairly common. The eggs that fail electronic candling are generally sold to bakeries or someplace like that at a cheaper price as they are flawed, but they are still perfectly safe to use. On a really bad one the YUK! Factor can be pretty bad. It’s best to crack our eggs in a separate bowl before we mix them in with other stuff so we can check them out.

This has nothing to do with a rooster or fertility. It has to do with the individual hen. It is more common with pullets starting to lay but I’ve had some adult hens hat were prone to both of these, especially blood spots.

Egg Quality Handbook
http://www.thepoultrysite.com/ourbooks/1/egg-quality-handbook/