First bloody egg!

[Chicken Girl]

First bloody egg!!! Ok y do chickens lay bloody eggs? And what happens if you eat them? The type of chicken that laid it is a leghorn pullet. And can a wound play a part in bloody eggs?


Chicken Girl

 

[gritsar]

I assume you mean blood on the outside of the egg? It happens sometimes, especially with new layers. It's just a blood vessel rupturing in the laying process. Nothing to worry about unless it's copious amounts of blood. The eggs are fine to eat.
This may help you:

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

 

[Tweeza]

I have 8 hens (8 of 10) laying that are 25 wks and I'd say probably 50% of the eggs have blood spots inside. We just go ahead and eat them. There have been 3 eggs with some kind of weird foreign looking matter in them. I feed those back to the chickens.

edited to add inside

 

[gritsar]

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Does the foreign matter look like a tiny bit of meat? Meat spots, same explanation as the blood spots. Harmless.

 

[Chicken Girl]

It was in the in side of the egg. It looked all most like a vain but it was not in the nest that long. At the most it was in there a day! And i know that it takes longer then a day for a baby to grow in it. And there was no hen on the eggs and no body in the box. So yeah! lol I just wanted to know y that hapens! THANKS!!!


Chicken Girl

 

[Tweeza]

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Does the foreign matter look like a tiny bit of meat? Meat spots, same explanation as the blood spots. Harmless.

It was about pea sized and firm. So it was okay to eat?

 

[gritsar]

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Does the foreign matter look like a tiny bit of meat? Meat spots, same explanation as the blood spots. Harmless.

It was about pea sized and firm. So it was okay to eat?

I wouldn't expect a meat spot to be as large as a pea, but that's not to say it can't happen.