weird egg thing

i cracked one of our own chicken's eggs yesterday and was amazed to see what looked like a blood clot in it, like a fertilised egg. tourble is, we only have 5 hens!! :cnfs: can anyone offer an explaination?

 

Perfectly normal, just a blood spot. Some hens produce them in their eggs all the time, others never do. And safe to eat (as are fertilised eggs, BTW!).

 

it'd take more than a blood spot/fertile to stop me eating my eggs! :lollol:

how strange though, i was always told (as a child) that the blood spot meant they're fertilised :cnfs:

 

A fertilised egg has a small dark spot in the yolk, similar to a blood spot. Most people wouldn't see it, unless pointed out to them. The egg also has to be incubated for anything to happen further...but then you know that!

I've had people say they couldn't possibly eat eggs that our chickens have laid as...(wait for it)...they see what they eat when they're wandering around the run. Huh???

 

oh I've heard a better one that that! One old lady who my brother in law knew was given eggs by a friend from their own chickens. she chucked the lot in the bin, because...............THEY HAD POO ON THEM!! :rotfl:

 

Silly ***. Goes to show, age does not necessarily confer wisdom!

 

Age does not bring wisdom. Often it merely changes simple stupidity into arrogant conceit.

sounds like my dad :lollol:

 

you can google for more information. But its not anything in general to get excited over. My fathers hens every now and then would have one.