egg color

[puffjr]

We had a egg fall and break and the white part of the egg was a pinkish color. What does that mean? Need help on this in case we have a sick chicken. Never seen this.

 

[sumi]

It sounds like there may be a little bit of blood in the albumen (white). Sometimes when the hens ovary releases a yolk at the start of the egg formation process a tiny blood vessel gets ruptured and the resulting blood can end up either as a "blood spot" on the yolk, or mixed in with the albumen. I've seen one case where it appeared the entire egg was filled with blood! Causes for this can be:

- Incorrect levels of vitamins A and K in the hen's diet;

- Administration of the drug sulphaquinoxaline;

- Large amounts of lucerne meal in the layers' diet;

- Feeding stale, wet or mouldy feed;

- Continuous lighting in the coop;

- Frights, stress and disturbances.