Show off your Peas!

[zazouse]

I think I know what you mean, those things scare me, those eggs go right in the trash.

That is a waist of good eggs silly ,

 

[zazouse]

t’s actually a little malfunction on the part of the hen. According to the Egg Safety Center:

[Meat spots or blood spots] are caused by the rupture of a blood vessel on the yolk surface when it’s being formed or by a similar accident in the wall of the oviduct… Eggs with blood spots and meat spots are fit to eat.​

I’m glad they have been deemed “fit to eat,” because although I will sometimes dig out the larger spots, I usually just ignore the smaller ones and scramble them up. *a-hem*
And here is another interesting little tidbit– the presence of visible blood spots can actually mean the egg is fresh. According to the Eggland’s Best website:

As an egg ages, the yolk takes up water from the albumen to dilute the blood spot so, in actuality, a blood spot indicates that the egg is fresh.​

Perhaps another reason you don’t often see blood spots in store-bought cartons is because those eggs are usually several weeks old by the time they make it home to your refrigerator…
- See more at: http://www.theprairiehomestead.com

 

[DylansMom]

Looks like we have 2 styles to choose from:

Ooh, where can I get me a pair of them? I like the top pair best, not only could I see inside the egg, I could look really mad while doing it!

 

[KsKingBee]

Looks like we have 2 styles to choose from:

Who needs super powers when you have X-RAY GOGS?

 

[casportpony]

[COLOR=0000FF]Looks like we have 2 styles to choose from:[/COLOR]

Too funny! -Kathy

 

[Birdrain92]

I never said I could tell the sex of the chick in the egg. I was just having fun and guessing. Where did you get that idea of me being able to tell the sex of the chick while in the egg?

 

[DylansMom]

I can tell if it's fertile no I can't tell if it's male or female. But why not have a little fun and just take guesses and see who is right. I say this egg will be male. Who else wants in just to take guesses just for fun?

How can you tell a fresh egg is fertile by candling? I know you were joking and can't tell if it is male or female by candling.

 

[casportpony]

I never said I could tell the sex of the chick in the egg. I was just having fun and guessing. Where did you get that idea of me being able to tell the sex of the chick while in the egg?

Never mnd that, we know you can't sex them, lol. What I want to know is how you can see that they are fertile? I know one can see an embryo at four days incubation, but one cannot take a freshly laid egg and see though the shell to tell if it's fertile or not, at least they can't with a flashlight or candler, which is what you're using, right?

-Kathy

 

[Birdrain92]

I'm using a flashlight, toilet paper roll to direct the light and going into a dark room. The method tells me that it's fertile, I'm not saying I can tell if it will develop because I've had duck eggs that don't have an embryo in them at all but they were fertile. How I know you might be asking because I've seen my drake breed the hen and he's only breeding one hen and every egg I get from her is fertile.

 

[casportpony]

I'm using a flashlight, toilet paper roll to direct the light and going into a dark room. The method tells me that it's fertile, I'm not saying I can tell if it will develop because I've had duck eggs that don't have an embryo in them at all but they were fertile. How I know you might be asking because I've seen my drake breed the hen and he's only breeding one hen and every egg I get from her is fertile.

What are you seeing that says it's fertile or not fertile? IMO, the majority of fertile eggs will develop, they might die, but you should see something at 4-5 days, so the fact that you saw so many duck eggs that don't develop, says to me they are_not_fertile. Just because you saw they breed doesn't mean they will be fertile.

If you can see this with a flashlight, take a picture with your new camera and tell us what you can see.

-Kathy