Have you seen this before?

[minxabroad]

Hi, just wondering if anyone has ever seen something like this in an egg. It looks like a pea sized pebble but has a little point at one end. It is not hard like a stone might be. It resembles, though I know it's not, the body of an engorged tick...

 

[Spartan22]

It’s seems like blood spot in egg that got cooked, new layers sometime will get those.

 

[theoldchick]

Yep. At times you can find all kinds of ugly things in eggs. You usually see them in eggs from young pullets or very old hens. This egg makes be think this is a 'lash egg'.

http://www.yellowbirchhobbyfarm.com/weird-eggs-101-the-oddities-explained/

http://www.the-chicken-chick.com/2014/12/salpingitis-lash-eggs-in-backyard/

 

[aart]

This egg makes be think this is a 'lash egg'.

Agrees, could be a lash.
Did you cut it open?
That can offer more clues.

 

[Ridgerunner]

It looks like you found a meat spot in an egg you boiled. Those are more common than many people expect. Sometimes things slough off inside the hen's body cavity and that finds its way into her egg making factory. They are kind of yucky but not really dangerous.

Egg Quality Handbook

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

Things slough off in your body cavity also and your body deals with it. That does not mean the hen is unhealthy or anything like that. It's just the way things are. Some hens are more prone to that than others though. That can happen to any laying hen of any age but pullets just starting and really older layers are more prone to it. That has nothing to do with a rooster, that's a common misunderstanding. That is purely internal to the hen.

That happens to commercial hens too but you never see it in the eggs you buy at the store. The commercial operations electronically candle their eggs before they go to the store. The ones that fail the candling are sold to places like bakeries or maybe pet food manufacturers, places that crack the eggs before they use them.

That's one of the worse meat spots I've seen. Blood spots are a lot more common around here.

 

[minxabroad]

It looks like you found a meat spot in an egg you boiled. Those are more common than many people expect. Sometimes things slough off inside the hen's body cavity and that finds its way into her egg making factory. They are kind of yucky but not really dangerous.

Egg Quality Handbook

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

Things slough off in your body cavity also and your body deals with it. That does not mean the hen is unhealthy or anything like that. It's just the way things are. Some hens are more prone to that than others though. That can happen to any laying hen of any age but pullets just starting and really older layers are more prone to it. That has nothing to do with a rooster, that's a common misunderstanding. That is purely internal to the hen.

That happens to commercial hens too but you never see it in the eggs you buy at the store. The commercial operations electronically candle their eggs before they go to the store. The ones that fail the candling are sold to places like bakeries or maybe pet food manufacturers, places that crack the eggs before they use them.

That's one of the worse meat spots I've seen. Blood spots are a lot more common around here.

It sounds like this is the closest to what we have here. This was a store bought free range egg. I have never seen anything like it before. It did put me off my breakfast....

 

[minxabroad]

Agrees, could be a lash.
Did you cut it open?
That can offer more clues.

I have now cut it open. It was quite like cutting open a large seed that had been boiled. It did not appear "lash" like but as it was tiny in comparison to "lash eggs" it is almost impossible to tell. It appeared to be just like a large semi soft seed...

 

[minxabroad]

Yep. At times you can find all kinds of ugly things in eggs. You usually see them in eggs from young pullets or very old hens. This egg makes be think this is a 'lash egg'.

http://www.yellowbirchhobbyfarm.com/weird-eggs-101-the-oddities-explained/

http://www.the-chicken-chick.com/2014/12/salpingitis-lash-eggs-in-backyard/

Eeewwww.... unless it was a very tiny beginning of a lash egg inside a "proper" egg it does not appear to be that. I have had one my chickens years ago pass one of those. At the time I didn't know much about it bit it truly was horrible.

 

[minxabroad]

Thank you everyone for your help. So far it seems to be closet to the "meat spot" option In all my years of eating eggs I have never seed anything like it-