Inside of egg

[Rick&Chris]

Any ideas what this is inside of the egg?

EDIT - I do not have a rooster

 

[Ionut Minea]

Where there any blood vessels in it

 

[Rick&Chris]

Where there any blood vessels in it

No - and I don’t have a rooster

 

[azygous]

I assume you are referring to the chalazae, that squiggly rope-like thing. It appears this egg made an attempt at being a two yolker, but didn't quite make it. Instead, the chalazae grew out of proportion to its yolk. This is a fluke, nothing to worry about.

Normally the chalazae appears as two tiny white-ish ropes at opposite sides of the yolk. It's purpose is to hold the yolk firmly positioned in the albumen inside the egg.

 

[DuckWhisperer06]

I assume you are referring to the chalazae, that squiggly rope-like thing. It appears this egg made an attempt at being a two yolker, but didn't quite make it. Instead, the chalazae grew out of proportion to its yolk. This is a fluke, nothing to worry about.

Normally the chalazae appears as two tiny white-ish ropes at opposite sides of the yolk. It's purpose is to hold the yolk firmly positioned in the albumen inside the egg.

 

[Rick&Chris]

I assume you are referring to the chalazae, that squiggly rope-like thing. It appears this egg made an attempt at being a two yolker, but didn't quite make it. Instead, the chalazae grew out of proportion to its yolk. This is a fluke, nothing to worry about.

Normally the chalazae appears as two tiny white-ish ropes at opposite sides of the yolk. It's purpose is to hold the yolk firmly positioned in the albumen inside the egg.

I HOPE that this is the case. I am freaking out. I am new to chickens and now fear that she has Salpingitis as someone else mentioned. If you look at the yolk itself, it also has a weird coating on it.

Is it safe to continue to give away my eggs?

 

[DuckWhisperer06]

I HOPE that this is the case. I am freaking out. I am new to chickens and now fear that she has Salpingitis as someone else mentioned. If you look at the yolk itself, it also has a weird coating on it.

Is it safe to continue to give away my eggs?

Do you know which chicken laid it? If you can tell her eggs from the others I would wait until you get a normal egg from her to use her eggs for anything. Which brings me to ask, is this the only eggs like this?

 

[azygous]

If your hen has salpingitis, you would be seeing waxy little chunks of pus in her poop. Those don't normally appear in an egg.

That egg doesn't represent anything connected to the health of your hen you need to be concerned about.

I sell most of my eggs, eating only a few myself so I've rarely seen any anomalies in them. But my customers have occasionally reported finding some gross surprises when they've cracked open an egg, one being completely red contents.

These things happen in nature. The eggs you buy in the store have all been candled to reject all but perfect eggs so people have no idea that an egg can appear with less than perfect contents on occasion.

Just warn your egg recipients that they should crack open an egg into a bowl before dropping the contents into the fry pan or pancake batter.

 

[Rick&Chris]

Do you know which chicken laid it? If you can tell her eggs from the others I would wait until you get a normal egg from her to use her eggs for anything. Which brings me to ask, is this the only eggs like this?

This is the first time I’ve seen anything like this in my eggs. I have, however, had a handful of soft shell eggs laid overnight (I’ve found them under the roosting bar in the morning, sometimes entact and sometimes broken and/or eaten. And I have had 2 laid without a shell at all.

 

[Rick&Chris]

If your hen has salpingitis, you would be seeing waxy little chunks of pus in her poop. Those don't normally appear in an egg.

That egg doesn't represent anything connected to the health of your hen you need to be concerned about.

I sell most of my eggs, eating only a few myself so I've rarely seen any anomalies in them. But my customers have occasionally reported finding some gross surprises when they've cracked open an egg, one being completely red contents.

These things happen in nature. The eggs you buy in the store have all been candled to reject all but perfect eggs so people have no idea that an egg can appear with less than perfect contents on occasion.

Just warn your egg recipients that they should crack open an egg into a bowl before dropping the contents into the fry pan or pancake batter.

Thank you. Glad to hear I don’t need to be concerned. I will recommend they crack into a bowl first, just to be on the safe side.