What are the red "blood spots" on egg yolks?

[fratmor]

It doesn't mean that it was fertilized , I had a red spot today and don't have a rooster.

 

[gritsar]

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Correct, blood spots and meat spots have nothing to do with whether an egg is fertile or not. The reason you don't see them often in store bought eggs is that commercial eggs are mechanically candled. Those showing meat or blood spots are rendered into other food products instead of being sold whole.

I have two roosters and I rarely see a blood or meat spot.

 

[CluckCluck18]

I can't believe you would cull a chicken because of a meat spot. # 1 it's edible or # 2 just pull it out with your finger. No biggie

 

[VanCity Farm Girl]

Thanks for all the info folks! I'm a chicken newbie and my "Ginger" has laid a few eggs with a fair amount of blood on the yolks. Good to know they are edible anyways and that she's ok. She certainly seems happy and healthy. I'll look into Vit. A & K a bit more as well.

Happy to meet all you other chicken-crazy folks! So far we are loving our birds.

 

[dreamerofchickens]

Can you still eat the egg if it has the blood spot?

 

[ScottyHOMEy]

Blood and meat spots are common. Not a high percentage but, once you'e cracked enough home-grown eggs open, they aren't all that rare and they're nothing to worry about. perfectly harmless.

But I can understand how they could be a little disconcerting if one is encountering the first one. We can thank the commercial producers who candle and cull such eggs from their supermarket line. But the culls aren't destroyed. The merely go off to the bakeries, or to the processors who produce powdered eggs and the milk cartons of pre-scrambled, and such.

My eggs go into the carton, unwashed, pretty much in the order in which they are laid. Unwashed, ungraded.

I have a friend to whom I give a dozen or so each week. Down to earth fellow, trying to raise his six kids to share that trait with him. He's said it was a revelation to his kids that not all eggs are the same size. and that they're not necessarily clean after being laid. And waht gives with this egg with two yolks???

Blood and meat spots are part of that same reality. Most consumers have just been shielded from it.

 

[spacecowgirl]

Well said!!

Yes, the reason you don't see the blood or meat spots in store bought eggs is because those are put into your store bought breads, bagels, cakes, etc.

Perfectly edible, but most people are squeamish about that kind of thing, and the marketers know it.

 

[JodyJo]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=16008

here is the link to the photos of fertilized eggs...ALL good to eat! Blood spots, bulls eyes....go for it!

 

[Chick Wife]

what are the red spots on the egg shell mean when the egg should of hatched a day ago?

 

[prinellie9542]

So is it alright to eat these eggs with spots? I am a newbie... but a lot of mine have the spots. I only have 5 hens (each one a different breed) and they are 7 months old and have been laying for a couple of months.