Re: Bad Egg ???

Mark M <m@xxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> One of my golden comets started laying yesterday.
> I got another egg today, so enough for an omelette.
> When i cracked open the first there were small black flecks floating in the
> white.
> They looked like they were either atached or very close to the yoke.
> The second egg was the same.
> I threw both away :-(
>
> I have been topping up there food for the last week as its been cold 0c.
> I have been giving them a bowl of cat biscuits mixed in hot water to make
> them break down
> as they're hard. Its a human sized bowl accross 6 birds.
>
> Could that be it?
> Or is it something worse???
>
>
> Mark.


Hi Mark,


there is an excellent (if somewhat long) description of the way an egg
is produced on
<http://www.msstate.edu/dept/poultry/avianemb.htm>

it describes how a small drops of blood may attach themselves to the
yolk after the rupture of the follicular sac, on its way to the oviduct.
Your small black flecks sound if they could have been such tiny
droplets. In that case, they aren't poisonous, and you could pick them
out and enjoy the rest in your omelette.

HTH

Nuele (D)
.

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