Egg Advice - Red firm yolk no white - why ?

[Whites0307]

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Opened this extremely light egg, no white just yolk , which was hard and red, what can cause this and would it have been safe to eat ? I didnt but worried about the rest.

 

[Crazy Maizie]

Interesting. I definitely wouldn't eat it. I only watched with no sound on, so maybe some questions were addressed. Do you know which chicken laid it? How old is the chicken? Might just be a blip.
You might get more answers in the egg laying and chicken behavior forum.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forums/chicken-behaviors-and-egglaying.18/

 

[Whites0307]

Interesting. I definitely wouldn't eat it. I only watched with no sound on, so maybe some questions were addressed. Do you know which chicken laid it? How old is the chicken? Might just be a blip.
You might get more answers in the egg laying and chicken behavior forum.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forums/chicken-behaviors-and-egglaying.18/

No I'm afraid I don't know that, this was shop bought farm eggs x

 

[Crazy Maizie]

No I'm afraid I don't know that, this was shop bought farm eggs x

Oh. Interesting.

 

[RosemaryDuck]

It's an old egg. I've seen this happen before with eggs I failed to find and sat under the hay for a while. The white of the egg evaporates and leaves the yolk. It gets a bit hard and when you crack it looks like this.

Likely it got picked up or found after a few weeks and someone thought it was new.

 

[Crazy Maizie]

It's an old egg. I've seen this happen before with eggs I failed to find and sat under the hay for a while. The white of the egg evaporates and leaves the yolk. It gets a bit hard and when you crack it looks like this.

Likely it got picked up or found after a few weeks and someone thought it was new.

I just thought an old egg would be more disgusting than that? But, I have a small flock and most eggs are gathered the day they are laid.

 

[RosemaryDuck]

I just thought an old egg would be more disgusting than that? But, I have a small flock and most eggs are gathered the day they are laid.

It depends, sometimes they get like this and other times they just rot and become a goopy disgusting mess . Think it has to do with temperature/environment/etc.