I need help!!!

[MrsKDJ]

I don't know what to do.. I have given away eggs for free to a coworker who uses them for dog food..

Ok here is the problem.. I must have a rooster.. because she cracked an egg and there was a baby chick in there (very small and not even developed)..

Anyway here is my problem.. I don't know where this rooster is.. we don't free range, they are all in a run.. there is no chicken that looks like a rooster.. and I don't have crowing!!!

Tell me can there be spontaneous embryos? Like is that completely impossible.. or do I really have a roo somewhere?

Also how in the world am I going to know??? I can post photos of my 29 flock of someone can pick out the roo.. but only if 100% certain..

 

[cherrynberry]

I don't know what to do.. I have given away eggs for free to a coworker who uses them for dog food..

Ok here is the problem.. I must have a rooster.. because she cracked an egg and there was a baby chick in there (very small and not even developed)..

Anyway here is my problem.. I don't know where this rooster is.. we don't free range, they are all in a run.. there is no chicken that looks like a rooster.. and I don't have crowing!!!

Tell me can there be spontaneous embryos? Like is that completely impossible.. or do I really have a roo somewhere?

Also how in the world am I going to know??? I can post photos of my 29 flock of someone can pick out the roo.. but only if 100% certain..

Post photos of your flock. Does your coworker have photos of the supposed "chick"?

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Is it certain it wasn't a meatspot

 

[aart]

Does your coworker have photos of the supposed "chick"?

@MrsKDJ before you panic.
Definitely need a pic of the 'chick'.

 

[Brooks_]

Good posts above

 

[Naisha]

Maybe it wasn’t an embryo but a meat spot, like others said. Sometimes they’re very gross xD
But I’m sure if you post pictures os your hens maybe someone here can “spot the rooster”, I’m still bad at telling them apart if it’s not very obvious, but people here know a lot! Haha

 

[Iluveggers]

Is it certain it wasn't a meatspot

@MrsKDJ before you panic.
Definitely need a pic of the 'chick'.

Agree with these posts. If you want to take pics of your flock anyway, we can double check on the rooster to rule that out too. (I just like looking at chickens)

 

[MrsKDJ]

Post photos of your flock. Does your coworker have photos of the supposed "chick"?

I will posts photos later today.. and no she does not have the chick or a photo.. I am holding she had someone else's eggs. Because I have no birds that crow. Ever. And we have had them for a year (since they were chicks!)

 

[NatJ]

I will posts photos later today.. and no she does not have the chick or a photo.. I am holding she had someone else's eggs. Because I have no birds that crow. Ever. And we have had them for a year (since they were chicks!)

Or maybe it was not a chick at all, but a meat spot (as several other people have suggested.) Meat spots happen sometimes (a little bit of tissue from the hen ends up inside the egg.)

... there was a baby chick in there (very small and not even developed)..

That sounds like a meat spot to me.

Eggs in the grocery store do not have meat spots because someone candles them, and any that are not perfect are sold somewhere else, like bakeries. (No-one will ever notice if their chocolate cake was made with odd-sized eggs, or double-yolk eggs, or eggs with little blood spots or meat spots, or anything else that is harmless but looks odd.)

Tell me can there be spontaneous embryos? Like is that completely impossible.. or do I really have a roo somewhere?

Were the eggs stored somewhere very warm? (Over 80 degrees Fahrenheit?)
If not, then there will be NO embryos, even if you did have a rooster.

Fertile eggs do not have visible embryos when they are laid. They need to be incubated for a bit before anything can be seen. And no, a single day of hens sitting on the eggs is not long enough for a visible embryo to form. So as long as you collect eggs each day, even if you DID have a rooster, no-one would ever find a chick in one of the eggs.

Again, I think this points to a meat spot (which is there from the time the egg is laid, so it does not need warm temperatures to allow it to develop.)

 

[Mrs. K]

Or she has your eggs mixed up with someone else's... I am pretty sure you would recognize a rooster that was over a year old. And as stated above, many of us have roosters, but unless a hen has been setting several days - nothing is going to be there.