Re: Bad Egg ???

Mark M <m@xxxxx> wrote:
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> "nuele mersch" <fowls@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> >
> > 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 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.

....
> > Nuele (D)


> 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


Hi Mark,

as you said these were a pullet's first eggs, you may find that it stops
once she is fully grown up??? I don't know really.

I seem to remember reading that some hens produce it more often than
others (well, most hens don't do it at all of course). The position of
blood vessels varies slighty between individuals - so if your golden
comet does happen to have a tiny blood vessel across the "stigma", where
there's normally none, I'm afraid you'll find small blood clots in more
of her eggs.

Perhaps, as she's not yet fully mature and her inner organs are still
growing, she might grow out of it.

BTW, folks here sometimes believe such a fleck was produced by the
cockerel ;-) of course, hens may produce it that have never seen one in
their whole life, when on the other hand most fertile eggs are perfectly
"fleckless"!

I think if I had a hen producing eggs with black flecks, I simply
wouldn't sell hers and keep them for use in my own kitchen. Only trouble
is, how to tell hers from the others' ... ;-)

Nuele (D)
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