Egg quality diminishing -- runny yolks, bloody yolks, runny whites

[lazy gardener]

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I thought brown leghorns laid brown eggs...?

Nope. Leghorns, no matter the color of the feathers or the style of comb, all lay white eggs. UNLESS, the Leghorn is a mutt, and came from a cross between a leghorn and an other breed.

 

[Eggcessive]

I once had a welsummer that laid an egg with blood in it every day. Since i had 2 of them I could never give away any of those eggs because they even made me squeamish to use them. They always were fed back to the chickens. After a year or so the affected hen never laid another egg again, so it must have been a problem with her ovary. Here is a thread with a few pictures that looked like mine:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/bloody-egg-inside-no-rooster-picture.1022253/
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/lots-of-blood-in-egg-uh-wtf.616777/

 

[Stephine]

Nope. Leghorns, no matter the color of the feathers or the style of comb, all lay white eggs. UNLESS, the Leghorn is a mutt, and came from a cross between a leghorn and an other breed.

Aha! Ok - not that one then...

 

[pjstar]

I once had a welsummer that laid an egg with blood in it every day. Since i had 2 of them I could never give away any of those eggs because they even made me squeamish to use them. They always were fed back to the chickens. After a year or so the affected hen never laid another egg again, so it must have been a problem with her ovary. Here is a thread with a few pictures that looked like mine:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/bloody-egg-inside-no-rooster-picture.1022253/
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/lots-of-blood-in-egg-uh-wtf.616777/

That’s quite more than a blood spot or a bit of blood. I wouldn’t use them nor give away.

 

[chickengeorgeto]

Blood in the egg is usually the result of something scarring the hens and maybe causing them to fly into the wire. It can be the result of predators or even kids roughhousing to close to the coop.