Whites in boiled yolk center, safe to eat?

[Fingolfinn]

Hi,
We have been raising our flock for a year and 2 months. (march 2018 we bought a chicks) we ended up having a rooster in our 13 chick collection, and happily accepted him. Unfortunately, for about 2 weeks now, we had to remove him from our flock and home since he was attacking our very young children.
I have read that our chickens can still lay fertilized eggs up to 4 weeks. I'm not sure if that is 100% but we noticed white circles of different sizes in the yolks of freshly cracked open eggs and were told it was the result if fertilized eggs, but never noticed when we hard boiled them

. Well, today I boiled eggs for sandwiches, and noticed all these white spots, some gooey, some the same constancy of the boild yolk. This is the first time I noticed. What is it? Is it safe to consume? Is it from my flock being ill? Please help

 

[AltonaAcres]

Welcome to BYC! That is SO weird, I have no idea what caused it. I would say don't eat them. We boil fertilized eggs all the time, and they don't look like that.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

I think that's just from cooking. The actual blastocyst is on the outside of a yolk, not inside it. My guess is the temperature that you cooked the eggs, or amount of time caused that and it's just cosmetic.

 

[Fishkeeper]

Is there any way those eggs sat out for a bit in a relatively warm area and started to incubate?

 

[Willowspirit]

Ya. Those eggs look a little underdone for sandwiches. I have seen that kind of stuff in grocery store eggs and they were fine.

 

[Fingolfinn]

Welcome to BYC! That is SO weird, I have no idea what caused it. I would say don't eat them. We boil fertilized eggs all the time, and they don't look like that.

Thank you, we were too nervous to eat them, glad I made the right decision. I tried Google for about an hour. Couldn't find anything except something called mottled egg...which I never heard of and didn't say anything about what it looks like boiled.

 

[aart]

Those eggs look a little underdone

Ditto Dat^^^

 

[Kiki]

Under done...nothing wrong with them.

 

[Fingolfinn]

Is there any way those eggs sat out for a bit in a relatively warm area and started to incubate?

Yes, actually, they could have been from the 2 days in the coop when we were out of town. Our dog sitter forgot to gather the eggs. Thank you for your response!

 

[Fingolfinn]

Under done...nothing wrong with them.

Thank you for your response