Bloody egg?

[Danigirl3]

Does any one have a picture of a fertilized egg? Meaning one that has been cracked open. I'm curious as to what they look like. I opened one of mine the other day and it was filled with blood. The white was tinted a reddish pink and there was what looked like blood clots in it. it was quite gross. This is the only one I have had like that. I sell the ones I don't use and am now worried about that happening again. I do have a rooster.

 

[Imp]

Here's pix on post 1.

I don't think bloody eggs is the same as fertile.

Imp


https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=16008

 

[TexasVet]

A fertile egg has a small white bullseye in the yolk. A bloody egg is just that, an egg with blood in it. I get quite a few of them from just-starting-to-lay pullets, so I always candle the eggs I'm going to sell.

You can see examples of bloody eggs (and other weird stuff) on the Funky Eggs page at www.CountryChickens.com

Kathy, Bellville TX
www.ChickenTrackin.com

 

[Danigirl3]

Thank you! That helps. The bloody egg I saw on countrychicken looks mild compared to the one I got. Fitting for Halloween I thought. lol Can you see the blood in the egg when you candle? The egg itself looked off to me so I wasn't selling that one but what a surprise when I opened it. I do collect a few times a day so none laying around for more than a hour or so I couldn't figure out what that was about. Thanks for the responses!

 

[Uzuri]

Have you ever looked at these pages? http://www.thepoultrysite.com/publications/1/egg-quality-handbook/11/egg-defects

Every type of egg defect you could possibly want to know about, and ways to spot some of them before opening the egg