Re: Bad Egg ???

Hi,

Since posting i now have two more hens from the same clutch laying.
Now the new ones have the same flecks, so i am hoping its just age.
I'll soon know i'm sure.

thanks again,

Mark.

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