Is this blood spot in egg yolk?

[seann]

Picture below:


Brown egg
Rhode island red
About 7 months old

We have no roosters

Thanks

 

[Fancychooklady]

Blood spots are not an indication of fertility, merely a sign of the hen having had some type of trauma , bit like a burst blood vessel.

 

[seann]

So, is it blood spot? If not what is it?

 

[Bethel3330]

It looks like a blood spot. They happen occasionally.

 

[Fancychooklady]

Yes it forms early on before the shell.

http://www.minkhollow.ca/mhf/doku.php?id=farm:eggs_for_eating

 

[seann]

Thanks all