Re: Bad Egg ???

Hi.

Thanks for that.
May well be the case.
I ate one anyway to see and so far so good.
I'll pick out the bits next time.
Is there a way to stop it happening?


Mark

"nuele mersch" <fowls@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1h68fgw.8ypfg91u6uccaN%fowls@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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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