Really gross egg yolks! GAG!!!

[CK Chickadilly]

I have some new ISA brown hens & they lay some really nice jumbo eggs. I am treating them for coccidia & worms.

I cracked the eggs open this morning to scramble them up to give back to the girls since they are still moutling & have some feather issues.

What I noticed was that there are some blood spots in the yolks which I know can be common.

On 2 of the eggs there were like around 20 or so tiny blood spots covering the whole top of the yolk. What causes this, it seemed really gross !

There was another egg that had a blob of yucky looking stuff in it. That one was really making me gag! What is up with this problem?

Can I give them vitamins or something that will take care of this. Is it alright to give the scrambled eggs to the girls & the dogs with all those disgusting blood spots & gunk (which I picked out).

Eggs are kind of a gaggy thing for me to begin with. Now that I have seen this I don't know if I could ever eat an egg!

 

[katrinag]

Can you post any pic of the eggs?

I did have a new layer a couple weeks ago that almost the whole yolk was covered in blood spots. I can a 1/2 dozen or so from her like that then they where normal.

 

[encmanerabbitry]

I personally would not feed them. Mostly because you said your treating the hens for worms and coccidia, I'd wait until after treatment, at least a week. But thats just me.

 

[miss_thenorth]

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S(he)'s not eating themm--but feeding them back to the chickens.

Can you desribe the yucky blob?

 

[encmanerabbitry]

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S(he)'s not eating themm--but feeding them back to the chickens.

Can you desribe the yucky blob?

lol OOPS that was supposed to say "feed them".

 

[miss_thenorth]

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S(he)'s not eating themm--but feeding them back to the chickens.

Can you desribe the yucky blob?

lol OOPS that was supposed to say "feed them".

Hey--your're from tilbury--I'm 10 minutes away from you!!!

And I think it would be all right to feed them back since they are the ones getting the meds anyways--right??

 

[encmanerabbitry]

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lol OOPS that was supposed to say "feed them".

Hey--your're from tilbury--I'm 10 minutes away from you!!!

And I think it would be all right to feed them back since they are the ones getting the meds anyways--right??

Yea it should be okay to feed them back, I just said "I" wouldn't.

And yep, I'm in Tilbury, sort of, Merlin address, Tilbury phone #, LOL. What a small world! Do you find it impossible as I do to find chickens?!?

 

[CK Chickadilly]

Ok. You guys are funny! LOL

I already dumped the yuck that was in the egg....sorry. But it was kinda like I thought it might be a fertilized little bugger but I don't have any roos & they are in lock down for a month here. But is it possible that the roo at the gals house last week that I got them thru could have fertilized them & it carries thru to this week yet? Does that even make sense? Makes me want to gag when I think of it!

But why do some of the eggs have a ton of tiny blood spots? Is it a lack of vitamins or something?

Do you think that when I get them back to really good health they will have better quality eggs (inside)?

Thanks y'all!

 

[speckledhen]

It's just a blood vessel bursting along the oviduct, nothing serious. Some are genetically predisposed to laying eggs with blood and meat spots. You should have seen one egg I got-terribly bloody inside. Looked like a war zone! Ick. The only one I've ever had that way, ever.

 

[chickbea]

Are you sure that the "yucky blob" wasn't the chalaza? Sometimes they are bigger and more goobery looking in one egg than in others...