Gross! What is in this unfertilized egg??!!?

[JanBarnett]

This is from a hen about 2.5 years old, good layer, she is eating chick food right now with supplemental calcium available to her if she wants it due to new babies in the flock. This hit the pan like a rock. It’s vascular. No, I haven’t cut it open and don’t really want to! I think she and her recently euthanized sister have “reproductive problems” in that they each had wrinkled eggs. They recently euthanized one stopped laying for a long time and finally took ill. They are both splash marans and bought from a feed store as day-old chicks.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Underdeveloped yolk.

 

[nuthatched]

It's just an undeveloped yolk that was released from the follicle too early.

 

[JanBarnett]

This is from a hen about 2.5 years old, good layer, she is eating chick food right now with supplemental calcium available to her if she wants it due to new babies in the flock. This hit the pan like a rock. It’s vascular. No, I haven’t cut it open and don’t really want to! I think she and her recently euthanized sister have “reproductive problems” in that they each had wrinkled eggs. They recently euthanized one stopped laying for a long time and finally took ill. They are both splash marans and bought from a feed store as day-old chicks.

 

[nuthatched]

Check you other thread for answers. :] I have buggy Internet too.

 

[sourland]

Picture is not showing, but it sounds as if it may be a lash egg contained within a normal egg.

 

[JanBarnett]

Underdeveloped yolk.

Thank you! Whew.

 

[JanBarnett]

It's just an undeveloped yolk that was released from the follicle too early.

Thank you so much!

 

[JanBarnett]

Well, I did some research into “undeveloped yolks,” and those still look like little yolks—the color on the mass in my egg is not like that of undeveloped yolks, which are still yellow. This could be a meat spot, but it’s HUGE and round

 

[JanBarnett]

Not a meat spot! It’s some type of fluid-filled cyst. Contains green fluid, not yellow if it were were a yolk.