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Chickielady · Apr 24, 2011

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The blood spots are called "egg meat" and are caused by tiny ruptured blood vessels in the ovary when the bird's ovary releases an egg.
It is harmless, and does not mean the bird is necessarily ill.
In the big egg farms, they high power candle all eggs before they sell them to toss out any eggs with "egg meats'...to pet food factories.
It can be something that just happens as the bird grows, or maybe she was frightened when laying ?
In any event, it is fine to eat.

Unfortunately, all but one egg from her has been bloody, and not just one small spot. I can't imagine that she is frightened every day, she seems to be a pretty calm bird, and unlike Luna, was never picked on by the rest of the flock when she moved here last month. She is top of the pecking order while Luna is at the bottom. Luckily Alex does not mind eating them. I can deal with 1 or 2 small spots, but these spots are very dark and cover 1/4 or more of the yolk. You have to mix sausage in with the egg to hide it

Oh, maybe she has some other issues !
How long has this been going on ?
Post an egg pic ?

Chickielady · Apr 24, 2011

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Mi Familia too!

I did the same 7 years ago, laid off with vacation and all sorts of bonus pay & a tax return, and unemployment, Dad convinced me to trip on down to CA and care for his 94 Y.O. Mother, my gramma.
It lasted 3 years before a TIA took her while I was feeding her....stroke.
And she just relaxed in my arms and was gone.
I miss her, she was special.
And it did change my life alot.
I bathed her, did the incontenence thing, fed her, and when unemployment ran out I got a close by job at a Burger joint, as cook, and ran to her whenever she had a problem.
Memories...

Chickielady · Apr 24, 2011

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Wow, she sure sounds like a precocious hussy !

Her eggs should get bigger, and fast.
What color was it ?
Should be brown..to maybe a pinky-brown..she is half wyandotte , mamma was a wyandotte "biddy" from Cheryl

One day, all our chickens may be related !!!!!!!

Well right there explains the Hussy and attitude! Those old biddies were top of the flock order! And if she lays anything like her mamma, you'll get plenty of eggs!

Eggs year round and yes the biddies ran the show and were kind.
her daddy was a cuckoo marans, so her eggs will be nice.

Chickielady · Apr 24, 2011

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I am still waiting for the pictures, and maybe I will go on a tour too?
Can I ?
I am glad it was a sharp shin hawk and not a perigren, from the glance I got and then it flipped out in the crate, I thought: Perigrin!!
OMG they are so endangered and here she is driving around with it in her car....and how on earth did you catch it ?????
Welding gloves ?

Chickielady · Apr 24, 2011

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lol Could you post a pic of chcikielady and my ganchick? Im curious how she looks, wonder how much she looks like her mamma!

so far I can pick out those two biddies out of Chickieladys flock pics! Loved them, and so glad that she took them home.

My avatar is kind of dark...But that is the "hussy" Matilda (or Tilly). She is the one moving up the ranks rather quickly...and she is laying regularly...like clockwork. I will get a better photo.

I had one somewhere..I will see if I still have it, anyway Cheryl she looks like a Cuckoo Marans with a Wyandotte comb

cheryl98117 · Apr 24, 2011

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My avatar is kind of dark...But that is the "hussy" Matilda (or Tilly). She is the one moving up the ranks rather quickly...and she is laying regularly...like clockwork. I will get a better photo.

I had one somewhere..I will see if I still have it, anyway Cheryl she looks like a Cuckoo Marans with a Wyandotte comb