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[Cinnamon]

Yesterday Fern laid a huge egg, at least half the size again of a normal egg.

Great I thought, I will have that for my breakfast tomorrow.

 

Well, I broke it into the pan & was shocked to see 3 yolks, & no white, just very liquid blood. Its was horrific

Being of a queasy nature,I immediately lost the coffee i had just drank, & it will probably be a long time before I can manage a fried egg again

 

Has anyone else ever experienced anything like this before, & will Fern be OK?

[Redwing]

Someone else posted about this a while back and I think the general concensus was that it was ok and then hen would be fine

 

I have to admit this is my biggest fear when it comes to eggs and I wonder if anyone who has had some of my eggs has ever had a problem

 

I would be the same as you if I saw one I think

 

I have had a few blood spots in my hens eggs so now I crack them into a cup before they go in to the pan and give them the once over, anything dodgy goes to the dog

[Lewis]

I suppose it makes sense that you can have a triple yolker.

Woman sometimes release 3 eggs and have triplets.

 

Hopefully she will be ok.

[Chillicat]

I had really big one day.

I was making a cake and I have a habit of always putting the eggs in last . I broke the fourth egg into my perfectly measured ingredients.............it was like a grizzly bloody eyeball thing inside . The yolk was covered in tiny red capilliary type things and the white was a pinky red goo that looked like red jelly. I fished it out sharpish, cracked another egg and carried on

Not had another experience since

[Raina]

Ewww

 

I would have cooked it in a cake or something and given it to my sister

[Budgies]

Hi Cinnamon, urgh, that must have been a bit of a shock for you!

 

With any luck it's just an extreme case of a blood spot in an egg. It's basically caused by an intra-follicle haemorrhage before the ovum is released.

 

Hopefully she should go back to her normal eggs after this, but I'd definitely keep an eye. Good luck

[Blackrocksrock]

I posted about this a long time ago last year and I opened one egg to find it full of blood and like you I was put off for ages and wondered if anyone I had given eggs to had had one - no one has said so presume not and never happened again to my knowledge - took me a while to eat eggs again! I am a bit squeamish anyway!. Had a lash to-day and a bit off again I am to-day too!.