Yolk spot?

[Trish of the Coop]

Hi guys, I need wisdom once again.... I have a healthy year and a half old sex link. She started back laying in march and all was well, however, the last month every egg she lays has the tiniest spot on the yolk. It almost looks like a meat spot, there is no runny blood and she appears to be healthy. Is she ok? Are the eggs ok to eat? I also have an ameraucana whis eggs are perfectly fine, and a very old EE who has meat spots in hers on and off ( I'm 99% sure hers are age, she lays sporadically and the shape is very rarely the same) could it be because she is young? Please help

 

[aart]

Post a pic showing this 'spot'.
99.9% sure it's safe, but without seeing it..<shrugs>

 

[Trish of the Coop]

Post a pic showing this 'spot'.
99.9% sure it's safe, but without seeing it..<shrugs>

Yes fair enough, I realized that after I threw it out... next one I crack I will post. It almost looks like a super small peice of cigarette ash.

 

[Trish of the Coop]

Post a pic showing this 'spot'.
99.9% sure it's safe, but without seeing it..<shrugs>

 

[Trish of the Coop]

Apologies for it taking so long to get the pic. Some eggs have 2 or 3 spots like this, some have one, and some eggs have no spots at all. They arent runny like blood, more like a meat spot but definitely on the yolk.

 

[aart]

Apologies for it taking so long to get the pic. Some eggs have 2 or 3 spots like this, some have one, and some eggs have no spots at all. They arent runny like blood, more like a meat spot but definitely on the yolk.

The 3 tiny red spots?
Look like blood spots to me....they aren't always 'runny'.

 

[Trish of the Coop]

The 3 tiny red spots?
Look like blood spots to me....they aren't always 'runny'.

Yup the 3 super small spots. I dont have a rooster and my understanding was no rooster meant no blood spots. I got her as a pullet in the fall I am wondering if that has anything to do with it? Any eggs with spots like that I usually scramble and feed back to them.

 

[aart]

Yup the 3 super small spots. I dont have a rooster and my understanding was no rooster meant no blood spots. I got her as a pullet in the fall I am wondering if that has anything to do with it? Any eggs with spots like that I usually scramble and feed back to them.

They won't hurt you, I eat them frequently in my scrambled eggs.
Has nothing to do with fertilization.
Blood spots are when a tiny (or larger) blood vessel breaks as an ova(yolk) is released form the follicle. Meat spots are a piece of tissue that can beak off anywhere along the reproductive system.

I think it's explained in this excellent video, which is worth watching regardless:

 

[Trish of the Coop]

Thank you very much. I have watched that befor but wasnt too sure if it applied or not. Thank you again for your help. Greatly appreciated

 

[rosemarythyme]

Looks like blood spots to me as well. If they gross you out, you can always pick them out before or after cooking, but when they're that tiny, I wouldn't bother.