Help. Wife found this in her egg this morning
Has anyone had a whiteish mass in their egg before? I looked online and some people said it's intestinal lining some said ovary parts. Not sure, but it looks too big to be the white strandy stuff.
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It actually looks like chiCken fetus to me. The unformed eye in the head blob maybe. Happened once to me also. They are eggs after all, and some get past quality control
I don't have a rooster...
Well this may be the second coming..
Got a manger?
I got a run with a nice spot of hay lol.
Well that makes it more interesting
In case any else is looking here's another picture before it went down the drain.
This needs a NSFW rating. LOL
Lol quality control implies those chicken farms even have quality to begin with. It's literally night and day between farm fresh eggs and those weird hardly yellow watery things they claim are eggs from grocery stores.
Happens every so often. Eggs are eggs.
Makes sense, but what is it? Do we just... Let it go and carry on? Nothing to see here? Lol
I wouldn't use it in a cake.
Too late
Nice cronch?
Embryo
What else you gunna do?
You can see if an egg is growing into a chicken in future by shining a bright light through it in a dark room/box. You will be able to see the veins growing, or else just a blank yolk. There are pictorial guides on tinternet.
Well I don't have a rooster... Can an egg become spontaneously fertilized?
You killed Chicken Jesus
Edit: sorry I see this is 4mo old.. I just came across the community..
Yes, it’s called parthenogenesis. It’s pretty rare in larger animals (tho fish, insects, and reptiles/amphibians use it much more successfully) but it’s been observed in turkeys, at a rate of about 4%, and up to 15% in some strains of chickens, tho not heavily studied, and usually not actually fertile (as in they never fully develop).
Here’s a thing with more info on that if you’d like to learn more :)
https://www.thepoultrysite.com/articles/parthenogenesis-embryonic-development-in-unfertilized-eggs-may-impact-normal-fertilization-and-embryonic-mortality
if this is farm fresh, it might be a fetus. i raised chickens so I've seen this before.. there's quite a few streaks of blood in the white as well, suggesting it might be fertilized.. you said you didn't have a rooster but without that knowledge I would have been certain of it. do you have a neighbor with free range chickens who might have a rooster?
No. My chickens stick to their run as well so a rooster can't have broken in. That's so bizarre.
A rooster in disguise?
Pretend to be a babe to get the babes
I don't have backyard birds, city slicker I am. I've occasionally seen something like this in store bought eggs. I've never seen it up this close though and this looks a little big and not as white. I kind of thought it was something normal. Looking it up, could it be chalazae?
I don't think so, maybe? It's a little too big to be chalazae I think.
How did it taste?
I'll ask the garbage disposal.
free shrimp
Too close to balut for me.