Eggs

[kopend]

is it possible to get a blood spot in an egg you buy from the supermarket

and is it possible to find a chick in an egg from a farm shop ?

[woofgang]

1. yes
and 2. theoretically yes but doubt it. the chickens would have had to be kept with a rooster to fertilise and the egg would have to have been incubated.

btw blood spots are not a sign of a fertilised egg or a developing chick but come from a blood vessel bursting in the chicken’s reproductive tract during the formation of the egg.

[-SharonA-]

I have had brownish reddish spots in eggs, whether they are blood spots I don't know. But I always scoop them out.

Whenever I see tv cooks breaking an egg straight into cake mixes, I feel sick as I cannot do that and my eggs have to be broken into a bowl first and all spots and eyes removed.

[RATTER15]

Yes and yes, however the second one is extremely unlikely.

[pastafreak]

"eyes"??

[jack daniels]

well i've had blood spots quite often from supermarket eggs & remove them
just had a double yolker the other day - love yolk
and i'm sure i've seen what did look like the makings of an embryo in a few eggs but not that often thank god

Anna x

[murraymints]

I always toss an egg with any wee bit of blood trace,,feel like a murderer !

[Psybbo]

I was going to buy eggs tomorrow but now I'll give them a miss!

[murraymints]

bacon roll sibs...wi' broon !

[B00]

Doesn't it make you wonder how on earth it was discovered that eggs are good? Someone, somewhere back in the midst of time saw an egg coming out of a chickens bum and thought "Yummm, that looks good"

[sherrardk]

The second thing is the reason I don't eat eggs that look like eggs :(

[murraymints]

lol..boo.....I'll have a slice of that cow's bum while I am at it....cavemen have a lot to answer for..and thanks...

[EcclesCake]

As said previously, yes and yes but unlikely.

What is it that scares so many of you about finding a fleck of blood in an egg?

[Canary42]

Why the hysteria over bloodspots ?

[Old_Geezer]

Other species, including that which we evolved from, started eating eggs long before they could think that well B00.

Yeah Pasta, get a dozen eggs on the Sunday and they'll see you through the week.

[Psybbo]

Minty, always with 'broom' x

[Psybbo]

Broon even

[jomifl]

It's potatoes with eyes that I can't eat...vegetables aren't supposed to have eyes :-)

[-SharonA-]

'Eyes' are what I call those white lumps.