"Fleshy" Egg Contents

[MrsAuberry00]

Can anyone toss me some links to images of weird stuff you might find in an egg? I did a search but don't ever have much luck. My husband was cracking eggs to scramble and opened one that had no yolk, but instead had some kind of tannish fleshy like material. I don't know that it was flesh or lining, but want some images to look at. Sorry, I didn't get a photo. TIA

 

[lazy gardener]

Do a google search for LASH egg.

 

[Kiki]

Here are some pics:
lash egg

 

[rebrascora]

The other option is that it was a meat spot. This is where a piece of tissue breaks away in the oviduct. It usually travels through the system with a yolk but the hen's body can treat the tissue like an egg and encapsulate it in egg white and a shell. I'm not good at doing links but if you search the term meat spot in eggs, you should get something. Most are very small blood spots with yolks but it is possible for larger pieces of tissue with no yolk. Did your egg have normal-ish translucent white. A lash egg is usually rubbery and solid and doesn't have a white and shell, although many variations are possible. A lash egg is concerning because it usually denotes salpingitis, which is an infection of the oviduct, whereas a meat spot may just be a one off minor abnormality of the system.

 

[Kiki]

The other option is that it was a meat spot. This is where a piece of tissue breaks away in the oviduct and the hens body treats it like an egg and encapsulates it in egg white and a shell. I'm not good at doing links but if you search the term meat spot in eggs, you should get something.

Here ya go:

meat spot in chicken egg

 

[MrsAuberry00]

It was definitely an actual egg. Shell, albumin, just zero yolk and medium pieces of tan/pink material.

 

[Kiki]

Did it look like anything in those two links I posted?

 

[rebrascora]

Don't suppose your husband or yourself cut them open to see what they looked like inside?

 

[MrsAuberry00]

Don't suppose your husband or yourself cut them open to see what they looked like inside?

It was mixed in with the other eggs he was scrambling in the pan. I just dug them out and pitched them. They weren't chunky, more like flakes, I guess.

 

[birdmandan]

You peeps are making me lose my appetite. Then again, some of the stuff we eat is indeed disgusting. Did you know that every day, millions of people are eating chicken ovulation! How insane is that.