Blue bead size ball in hen egg??

[ChickCrazy585]

Hi, I have hens of my own and have been eating their eggs for years. The other day, I cracked open a white shelled egg and to my surprise there was a bead size blue ball in the egg white?? I have never seen this before, and I can’t find any information on the internet... does anyone have any idea what it could be??

Thanks for any help!

 

[Ridgerunner]

Hi, welcome to the forum.

No photos! Darn. This probably falls in the meat spot category in this link. Blood spots are different but somewhat similar. The start of the hen's internal egg making factory is basically a funnel open to the hen's body cavity that the yolk enters to start the egg making process. Anything in that body cavity can fall in the funnel and become part of the egg. Usually that's a piece of body material that sloughs off. That's why I open our eggs in a separate bowl before I add them to anything. Commercial operations electronically candle their eggs and remove any like that so their customers don't get upset.

Egg Quality Handbook

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

 

[Sue Gremlin]

Sometimes chickens can "suck" with their cloaca and ingest objects--like worms--into their oviduct from the colon. It's not common, but it does happen. She may have eaten the blue thing, and then it somehow ended up in her oviduct and became incorporated in an egg.

 

[ChickCrazy585]

Hi, welcome to the forum.

No photos! Darn. This probably falls in the meat spot category in this link. Blood spots are different but somewhat similar. The start of the hen's internal egg making factory is basically a funnel open to the hen's body cavity that the yolk enters to start the egg making process. Anything in that body cavity can fall in the funnel and become part of the egg. Usually that's a piece of body material that sloughs off. That's why I open our eggs in a separate bowl before I add them to anything. Commercial operations electronically candle their eggs and remove any like that so their customers don't get upset.

Egg Quality Handbook

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

Thank you!! Unfortunately the shell was thrown away by my partner before I could get a picture.

 

[ChickCrazy585]

Sometimes chickens can "suck" with their cloaca and ingest objects--like worms--into their oviduct from the colon. It's not common, but it does happen. She may have eaten the blue thing, and then it somehow ended up in her oviduct and became incorporated in an egg.

Ahhh I see, thank you!! I didn’t know that!

 

[Eggcessive]

I have seen smaller grey things in eggs that were meat spots, nothing serious. If you know which hen laid the egg, you can watch her eggs to see if she does it again. I have an older Marans hen who has a meat spot almost every day.