In article >,
says...
>
> On Mon, 11 Jan 2016 09:22:51 -0500, Gary > wrote:
>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Mon, 11 Jan 2016 08:56:50 -0500, Gary > wrote:
> >>
> >> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Perhaps the egg you had would have been a deformed issue had it gone
> >> >> on to be a chick.
> >> >
> >> >From what I understand, the eggs we buy at the grocery stores are
> >> >unfertilized eggs and would never grow a chick.
> >>
> >> Those cockerels are busy guys Even El Chapo knows that
> >
> >Looking this up....
> >
> >"since eggs sold for human consumption are unfertilized,"
> >
> >from: http://freefromharm.org/eggs-what-ar...really-eating/
>
> I didn't mean the fleck of red one associates with a fertilised egg
> but rather a whitish, stringy thing that seems to keep the yolk in
> place. In many recipes this is referred to and it says to remove.

That red fleck appears in unfertilised eggs; it's from a harmless
small rupture of a bloodvessel in the hen, that happened as the egg
formed. It's NOT a developing foetus.

The string things (there's one at each end) are called chalazae and
are just anchors to hold the yolk in the centre of the shell. It's NOT a
chicken umbilical cord :-)

Janet UK