Meat spots

[Chickidee216]

Hey yall! I have 8 RIR and 2 Gold sex link hens that are about 8 months old now and have been laying for a while now. I'm still getting a ton of meat spots and blood spots in the eggs. I'd say about 60% of the eggs have some sort of blood related defect. Is that normal? It's getting to a point where my friends and family don't want to use my eggs cause it grosses them out.

They are free range with layena pellets with oyster shell if that helps.

Thanks!

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[sourland]

That seemed high to me so I did a google search. Information I read suggested an incidence of 3 % to 30% with the incidence being higher in brown eggs. I could not come up with a probable cause other than that strain of bird may have some relationship to the problem. Don't tell your friends and family that in commercial production these eggs are candled out and used in bakery products - so they are probably eating them anyway.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Sometimes it's genetic, and a hen will always lay eggs with some gunk in them. What I have found is flighty birds and those that fly around tend to get more blood spots in their eggs, which are usually from ruptured blood vessels. So keeping a flock calm and quite can help cut down on many occurrences.

 

[Chickidee216]

Ok. Thanks guys!

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[aart]

That seemed high to me so I did a google search. Information I read suggested an incidence of 3 % to 30% with the incidence being higher in brown eggs. I could not come up with a probable cause other than that strain of bird may have some relationship to the problem. Don't tell your friends and family that in commercial production these eggs are candled out and used in bakery products - so they are probably eating them anyway.

No ....DO tell them

 

[jessif]

I wonder if you are onto something. I am having a big issue with meat spots in my RIRs. My roost are high in my coops and they jump/flutter down in the morning. I may try lowering them. Thanks for that info!

Sometimes it's genetic, and a hen will always lay eggs with some gunk in them. What I have found is flighty birds and those that fly around tend to get more blood spots in their eggs, which are usually from ruptured blood vessels. So keeping a flock calm and quite can help cut down on many occurrences.