[CHICKENS-101] Re: How do specks get into the eggs?

 

I get blood spots in my eggs all the time (only one chicken laying...so I know it's her). The specks are tiny...like a pepper flake, and can appear in the white or on the yolk and there can be just one or multiple specks per egg. It effects about 50% of her eggs. Color can vary from light brown to black. I just take a spoon and scoop it out (difficult but possible...kind of like trying to get an egg shell particle out) and use them in cakes and the such.

She's been doing this 9 months now (since I bought her), but she is otherwise really healthy and gives me ALOT of eggs (almost every day this summer and every 2 days this winter...which is just AMAZING BTW). I've heard it can be genetic (wonder if that's why she was sold at the sale). And she is a brown egg layer.

It's just the craziest thing...she's ugly, deformed (bad genetics I think...crooked feet, REALLY short wings, funny looking head), flighty, kinda mean, she has to have a special nest on the floor because she can't master the concept of laying in a box that's off the floor, by FAR the least intelligent chicken I've ever known and her eggs are often blood speckled, but MAN does she lay the eggs. Big ones with hard shells too! Reliable and Plentiful! Makes up for everything else!

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