Bloody Egg... INSIDE... No Rooster... Picture

[pullorroo]

Does anyone know if this is cause for concern, other than grossing me out. I was frying up some eggs and one normal looking egg when cracked open revealed lots of blood in the whites.

All I could find was the suggestion that is was an embryo, but we have no Rooster.

 

[zebraffe4231]

Hens often lay odd eggs rooster or not. Blood spots can happen and are completely normal so it shouldn't be a problem but i would get a second opinion.

 

[Blooie]

Sometimes all kinds of surprises turn up in our eggs. If you don't have a rooster, then you aren't looking at an embryo. Now, if your girls free range and there's a rooster close by who might be coming over for a little action, then you could have some fertilized eggs. But there's a lot of blood in there for it to be an embryo anyway. I think it's a plain old blood spot but it's a doozy! Since that one is so extreme, I think I'd keep a close eye on that chicken to make sure she has no other reproductive or health issues.

Ma used to be an egg candler back in the late 40s and early 50s when they still candled each one by hand with a light bulb, not with the high powered computerized jobs that commercial egg producers use now, and she used to bring the questionable ones home, as all employees were allowed to do. She taught us early on to always, always have two bowls ready when using eggs. Crack an egg into the first bowl and if it's okay set it aside. Crack the next egg in the second bowl, if it's okay pour it into the first bowl, continuing until you have as many eggs as you need in the first bowl. For fried eggs crack an egg into the first bowl, put it in the pan, then do the next ones like that. Yep, it's a pain in the hiney. But I am one of those egg gatherers who just can't deal with the spots in eggs and I figure it I get an unappetizing one there's plenty more where that one came from. When I first started keeping my own home, eggs were graded differently, by quality as well as size. You could buy grade B and C eggs as well as A and AA. The lower grades were cheaper - often significantly - and I bought them most of the time. There would be surprises in those eggs, too, but thanks to Ma's experience checking eggs before using them was second nature. Now if I get a nasty looking egg, I pitch it or give it to the dog and get a different one. I just can't do the blood spot stuff. Back when I bought cheaper eggs, I'd get those spots out no matter what I had to do and use them anyway.

 

[aart]

Been there done that, makes ya go ewwww.....made me break eggs in a separate bowl before pan or recipe for quite awhile tho..lol.

It's caused by a blood vessel breaking when the ovum is released, not unusual and not a problem unless it happens all the time.