If an egg has a teensy red spot on the yolk?

[kimboolah]

Does that mean I have a rooster? I can't tell what I have, have posted pix here and the general concensus was all hens (which is what I wanted to hear, so YAY!). We got our first egg yesterday (major happy dance) and it was a double yolker--sooo exciting! It had a tiny blood spot on it--what does that mean? Anything?

This is all so fun, I wish I could quit my job and just hang out with my birds!

 

[Lollipop]

LOL, Glad you`re having fun. Blood spots are a normal occurance in eggs. They are caused by tiny ruptured blood cells. Commercial eggs are candled and eggs with bloodspots are removed and sold to bakeries, etc. The bloodspot has nothing to do with roosters or anything else and are entirely edible. Here`s the formal expaination........Pop

Blood spots;

The yolk is formed in the follicular sac by the deposition of continuous layers of yolk material. Ninety-nine percent of the yolk material is formed within the 7-9 days before the laying of the egg. When the yolk matures, the follicular sac ruptures or splits along a line with few, of any, blood vessels. If any blood vessels cross the stigma, a small drop of blood may be deposited on the yolk as it is released from the follicle. This causes most blood spots in eggs. After the yolk is released from the follicle, it is kept intact by the vitelline membrane surrounding it. The release of the yolk from the ovary is called "ovulation."

 

[kimboolah]

Thanks, Lollipop!

Completely off topic, my Uncle used to have a dog named Lollipop. She was some kind of smooth terrier and she bit the big toe off my new doll on Christmas morning. I think i was about 6 when that happened and i remember it sooo clearly.

Other than that, she was a nice doggie.

Not as nice as my chickens, however!