Inside of egg

[DuckWhisperer06]

What kind of chickens do you have?

 

[Rick&Chris]

What kind of chickens do you have?

Buff Orpington (2), Gold and Silver Wyandottes (1 of each), 2 black star (sex links I think), True Whitings (one blue/one green), and 2 barred rocks

 

[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.

Just curious, how do you candle for abnormalities?

 

[azygous]

Here's how the commercial egg operations do it.

Here's how you can do it. https://www.wikihow.life/Candle-an-Egg

 

[Rick&Chris]

Someone on the Facebook page is saying it’s an infection. Do you think it could be, or the chalazae as mentioned?

 

[Henry&Friends]

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.

I don’t know what’s in that egg, but it sounds like your hens could use a calcium supplement, like oyster shell. You can also break up their eggshells and feed them back to them.

Also, I’d watch out and see if whatever that thing is reoccurs in other eggs, or if it’s a one time mistake.

 

[DuckWhisperer06]

Here's how the commercial egg operations do it.

Here's how you can do it. https://www.wikihow.life/Candle-an-Egg

That’s crazy how much a single egg goes through!

 

[Rick&Chris]

I don’t know what’s in that egg, but it sounds like your hens could use a calcium supplement, like oyster shell. You can also break up their eggshells and feed them back to them.

Also, I’d watch out and see if whatever that thing is reoccurs in other eggs, or if it’s a one time mistake.

I do have oyster shell free choice on the side, I also feed them back their cooked egg shells.

Maybe I should stop giving the eggs away until I see if there is a pattern. What do you think?

 

[perchie.girl]

YES Calcium
NO Chalazae (Azygous) Is on my trusted source list

No comment about Facebook....

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

Maybe I should stop giving the eggs away until I see if there is a pattern. What do you think?

Candle give aways...
Tell em to crack into a bowl first... I even do that with Store bought...

deb