Blood ring in infertile/ eating eggs?

[HeritageFan]

I have a friend who sells duck eggs, fresh but not cleaned.

She stores the eggs in a cool area, collects daily, stores pointy side down in cartons, and has no drakes. She typically sells them within a week of them being laid, but- I have done some farm sitting for her, and know they sometimes lay in the muck around their water (she is very good about cleaning.... but she does not have a coop. Just some areas w straw that are sheltered, and she does close them off off their free range areas at night.)

She has had three that looked like this when cracked-
I’ve seen blood spots, but never a blood ring on a fresh duck egg that cannot be fertile?

Any thoughts that I can pass along?

I can say that she has 1 for sure and maybe 2 that look like they may have ascietis- those were from a rescue effort. But everyone else looks healthy and happy

@Eggcessive
@Miss Lydia

 

[Debbie292d]

Blood spots are the result of tiny blood vessels in the hen's ovaries or oviduct rupturing. In this case, I'd say it was a larger blood vessel.

They say they are safe to eat but I sure couldn't do it.

 

[Squawkers]

Yeah, my dog would be getting egg for dinner

 

[Eggcessive]

I had a welsummer hen who laid eggs with blood inside the albumen. It started gradually, then every egg had it. I collected her eggs and fed them back to the chickens or dogs. Eventually she stopped laying altogether at the age of 18 months. I don’t know much about ducks, but it probably is about the same.

 

[HeritageFan]

Blood spots are the result of tiny blood vessels in the hen's ovaries or oviduct rupturing. In this case, I'd say it was a larger blood vessel.

They say they are safe to eat but I sure couldn't do it.

She has.... I think 15 duck hens of different varieties. I’d guess these were from her Welsh Harlequins (both that show signs of ascietis are rescued welshies) based on egg size and color. But there were 3 that looked like this in the last 7-9 days

....sooo it could possibly be from the same hen. But. She sells most of her eggs so.
Thank you for the ideas. I think I’ll suggest she separate those 2 and check her eggs.

I know she doesn’t want to disappoint customers.
But I’m also sure she would rather disappoint by not fulfilling orders, than to disappoint by customers seeing this ....

 

[Chicken_tiger_catt]

She has.... I think 15 duck hens of different varieties. I’d guess these were from her Welsh Harlequins (both that show signs of ascietis are rescued welshies) based on egg size and color. But there were 3 that looked like this in the last 7-9 days

....sooo it could possibly be from the same hen. But. She sells most of her eggs so.
Thank you for the ideas. I think I’ll suggest she separate those 2 and check her eggs.

I know she doesn’t want to disappoint customers.
But I’m also sure she would rather disappoint by not fulfilling orders, than to disappoint by customers seeing this ....

rescues? how long has she had the ducks? where did they come from?

 

[KathiQuacks]

I never cracked mine open enough to see if there were any full rings, but I did have some blood spots / blood streaks in 1 - 2 eggs every day for maybe a month before it went away on its own. Those were caused by ruptured blood vessels in my new layers, which hopefully is all that’s happening here, too.

It’s possible she could see these rings through candling, but I never could see it myself I give my eggs to family and just explained that the blood was a possibility and not baby-related.

Perhaps she could explain similarly, or separate like you say and figure out who’s laying the blood eggs.

 

[HeritageFan]

rescues? how long has she had the ducks? where did they come from?

She purchased them from CL, and they were not in a good situation when we arrived.
I was with her for the pick up.... they were a mess. I treated them for mites, quarantined, bathed,
(I know that you should not need to bathe a duck. But they needed to be bathed), wormed them....
I have more space to quarantine than she does so we helped w that phase of the rescue.
They had shipping receipts for the ducks from a reputable hatchery, and they seemed to be the right age based on my experience- just not properly cared for. So we could not -not- take them out of there.
They are about 18mos old- the welshies in question