why are there blood spots in my eggs?

[MandyH]

We have a meat processor right up the road that makes THE best sausage in the entire world, it comes in 2 pound packages and you make your own patties out. Well, my husband's favorite thing is for me to make him a sausage about the size of a coffee cup saucer and then fry him a fresh egg(or two) and then he toasts him a couple pieces of bread and has a breakfast sandwich bout the size of your head LOL!!! I make up enough for several days and them put them in a foodsaver bag and stick them in the fridge or freezer so all he has to do is warm them up and go.

 

[rypie13]

I would love to say that the whole steak idea cured me of the finikiness, but alas, I do not eat red meat.

 

[Stetson]

I'm guessing this is a meat spot? I did not eat it. It totally skeeved me out. I ate the good one next to it though.

 

[Meytchison]

Neither blood spots nor meat spots will hurt you. Think about all the blood in a pound of hamburger.
Just FYI - cloudy whites are also a sign of a really fresh egg.

There is no blood in hamburger, steaks, or whatever, what you see are only enzymes.

 

[Quickster]

I'm guessing this is a meat spot? I did not eat it. It totally skeeved me out. I ate the good one next to it though.

I would be skeeved out too. Yet we eat hot dogs and bologna and who knows what else that we just have no clue about... We are kind of silly.

 

[Stetson]

Haha yep! Totally silly. Still, once my gag reflex has been triggered about something, there's no eating it without throwing it up the instant it hits my mouth. And that meat egg triggered it. I have purposefully avoided learning too much about how hot dogs are made so that I can continue eating them in deliciously ignorant bliss. Though for awhile I was getting grass fed cow hearts, tongues, and livers for my dog, and while cutting them to pieces for her I considered cooking them up for myself more than once. We still have a heart in the freezer that we do plan on trying eventually. So I don't mind if THOSE organ meats are in my organic grass fed hot dogs. Anything else I probably don't want to know about.

 

[Blooie]

I'm not so much concerned about finding these spots in my backyard eggs for my own use....I know what they are and I can either pick them out or scramble them and feed them back to the girls. Wayyyyy back in the day Ma worked at Blue Ribbon Hatchery as a candeler. (Yes, once upon a time they did that by hand, one egg at a time!) and she taught us to never break an egg directly into a recipe or a pan - always told us to break them into a bowl first. That way if we did get a "yucky" we could either use it or not instead of trying to dig it out of a bowl full of cake fixin's. What I am concerned about is now that the egg production here on Oleo Acres has ramped up, I have a surplus of eggs and I'd like to be able to share the surplus with friends and family. I'm afraid that breaking open one of our eggs and finding that would turn them off from ever wanting eggs from us. I tried candeling but a) I don't really know what I'm looking for and b) candeling dark colored eggs is hard!!

 

[scot123]

Interesting info. I have had tiny specs in my eggs, but nothing so large.

 

[gritsar]

I'm guessing this is a meat spot? I did not eat it. It totally skeeved me out. I ate the good one next to it though.

Been doing this for quite a few years now and IMHO that is more than a meat spot. That is an egg that a hen partially incubated.

 

[gritsar]

There is no blood in hamburger, steaks, or whatever, what you see are only enzymes.

Seriously, you brought up a quote made by me five years ago to split hairs?
Okay....so yeah, the red liquid in meat is caused by a protein called myoglobin mixing with water. My point in my first post is that people are not grossed out by it when they bite into a steak or hamburger cooked medium or rare, so why should they be freaked out by a little bit of blood or meat in another animal product?
Doesn't matter to me either way; I don't eat any land animals and have lost my taste for eggs in recent times.

P.S. I raise my chickens using common sense, not science books. Haven't lost one to any illness or improper care so far, only predators a few summers back.