Eggs with completely CLEAR yolks?!

[TheFarmMama]

We just got a new Serama that arrived via USPS yesterday and discovered she'd laid a super tiny little egg on her way here. Since we bought her with a rooster we figured we'd check to see if they were fertile yet. The egg was insanely hard to crack and when I did manage to crack it and pour it into a dish it was super THICK, like imagine a gelatin type substance, with a completely clear yolk. I mean you could literally see through it like the egg whites.

I read that the yolks can sometimes be WHITE but nothing about being clear. The white is caused by a lack of pigment which is rare but not abnormal and completely safe to eat. I also know that if fed a wheat diet it will significantly lighten the yolk color whereas corn diets darken it. My question is, has anyone else had this happen with CLEAR yolks and if so what the heck causes it? She was a pretty penny and we're looking to breed her so I'm just getting paranoid something is wrong since I've never experienced this with my others. I'm going to check her next egg but who knows when that may be. Thanks yall!

 

[canada-goose]

Fart egg.

Seramas lay small eggs, not super tiny ones, in my experience.

 

[CoopCrazy]

Yeppers fart eggs.. They are entirely normal for a young pullet...... The center White can be really gelatinous as well... There kind os fun to throw at your lil DS and tell him its snot... LOL

 

[TheFarmMama]

Yeh this was marble kinda small but I read that fart eggs aren't supposed to have yolks, just whites. Can they have yolks too? I was surprised she laid at all with traveling like that.

 

[CoopCrazy]

I have had fart eggs be all yolk and some all whites.. Last one I got was excatly as you described.. Even with the Clear "yolk" in the center of the whites...

 

[OccamsTazer]

My birds have laid fart eggs with yolks in them before, but they were white/veeeerrry pale yellow.

 

[TheFarmMama]

Well I appreciate all the responses, that makes me feel much better. Hopefully her next one will be of a reasonable size and color. She's already 10 mos so that's what took me by surprise. Thanks again yall!

 

[Sassy Squatch]

We just got a new Serama that arrived via USPS yesterday and discovered she'd laid a super tiny little egg on her way here. Since we bought her with a rooster we figured we'd check to see if they were fertile yet. The egg was insanely hard to crack and when I did manage to crack it and pour it into a dish it was super THICK, like imagine a gelatin type substance, with a completely clear yolk. I mean you could literally see through it like the egg whites.

I read that the yolks can sometimes be WHITE but nothing about being clear. The white is caused by a lack of pigment which is rare but not abnormal and completely safe to eat. I also know that if fed a wheat diet it will significantly lighten the yolk color whereas corn diets darken it. My question is, has anyone else had this happen with CLEAR yolks and if so what the heck causes it? She was a pretty penny and we're looking to breed her so I'm just getting paranoid something is wrong since I've never experienced this with my others. I'm going to check her next egg but who knows when that may be. Thanks yall!

We got and tiny egg that the yolk was clear. My son said it tasted different I tasted it and agreed. Not sure why they'll was clear.