On 2008-01-26, Janet Baraclough > wrote:

> That red spot is just a fertilised egg, not a bad one. Just winkle it
> out with a teaspoon.

That's a common mistake -- The red spot doesn't indicate a fertiziled egg.
It is a spot of blood and, although, some people may object to the look, it
is completely harmless.

From Whistling Train Farm:

Blood spots occur when blood or a bit of tissue is released along with
a yolk. Occasionally a blood vessel can break during yolk formation, so
that a little bit of blood is wrapped up in the albumen. As an egg ages,
the blood spots become paler * a bright red spot is an indication of
freshness. Blood spots occur in less than one percent of all eggs laid,
and may appear in a pullet's first eggs, but are more likely to occur
in aging hens.

From answers.yahoo.com:

The red blood spot is quite normal and NO it doesn't mean the chook
(chicken) was inseminated before laying the egg.,. that's an old wives
tale .. blood flecks within eggs are quite common especially among free
range chooks (chickens); cook it and it will probably disappear .. or at
worst a small black fleck will show, you can eat it, it is harmless and
tasteless .. we run our own chooks (chickens) and blood flecks are in
almost every egg, been eating them for years and no problems

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Clay Irving >
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