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Purchased eggs from the farmers market and they were dark on the inside.
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Egg agriculture specialist here. That’s what in the books we call a Black rot egg. Essentially, the inside had a bacterial or fungal infection that started to rot the amniotic fluid. Obviously, don’t eat it and maybe let the farmer you bought the eggs from know as that could be something wrong with the chicken itself
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Probably ate it already. They dead.
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Rest in shells 🍳🥚
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Probably burning in Shell right now.
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Shell shocked
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What the shell!
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what the shelly
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What the shellyante
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What the shellyberry
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Where’s Shelly David?
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This comment made me laugh harder than expected
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Rest in Peeps*
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Id rather eat these eggs than Peeps
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Rest in quiche
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It’s been 4 hrs and no response from OP. F in chat to pay respects
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But my F key broke 🙁
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Yeah. I know i’ve been too much on reddit this days because i’ve seen this post… F
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They used it to make a beef wellington and gave it to their relatives
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was the farmer’s market in Springvale
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He’s over easy
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So I recently cracked an egg and it was blood red on the inside. May I lean on your expertise for info on this?
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So normally, when the eggshell is formed inside the chicken, the shell will “snip” either a blood vessel or part of the reproductive organ leading to blood filling the egg. It’s a lot more common than the black rot and not recommended to eat.
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How do I subscribe to more egg facts?
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I don’t know about subscribing, but I can tell you two of my favorite facts. Some eggs can have a twin situation where you’ll find two yolks in one shell! Some people see it as a sign of good luck! And #2 eggs don’t always come out as ovals sometimes they can be circles, oblong, or even pointed! (One time, I found one almost pyramid-shaped, which was crazy)
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Do you have a picture of the pyramid one?
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In the food service business I’ve heard a joke saying among cooks; every double yolk egg you crack is one girl you’ve gotten pregnant.
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My mom grew up on a ranch and had a chicken that exclusively laid double yolk eggs. She must’ve cracked hundreds… 😳
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Can you tell us anything about the eggs of the… **jackdaw**?
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You just Unidon’t do this!
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I was making deviled eggs once and all 12 eggs were double yoke! Craziest dang thing I ever saw.
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Double yolkers are the stuff of dreams. A guy at work used to bring boxes of them in.
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Yeah. I have a feeling a lot more of us will have chicken houses in the near future. Homestead fun facts will be good to have. Maybe I have myself a dairy cow, too. The HOA will throw a shit fit at first but meh … Cow fun fact: when a cow is supplying milk for a 4-5ish person family , you do not need to tear the calf away from the momma nor give her hormones to keep the cow in milk. Granted you can’t be drinking a gallon a day but a family that size shouldn’t be anyways.
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>not recommended to eat. According to the link shared a few times in this thread, https://eggsafety.org/eggs-inside-and-out/ that isn’t true. >Eggs with blood and meat spots are safe to eat when prepared properly. Blood or meat spots are caused by the rupture of a small blood vessel around the yolk at the time of ovulation, or the presence of tissue during egg formation in the hen. This makes sense since we eat meat and eat blood all the time, blood is not unsafe to eat.
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That is fair and correct. In situations with small blood/meat spots, they are safe to consume(the normal rule of thumb is 1/8ths an inch if I remember right), and while you can consume a bloody egg, I wouldn’t recommend it due to the possibility of changes to the taste and contamination for other possible illnesses.
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Small spots of it are fine, yes, but sometimes the egg is more red than not, and you shouldn’t eat that
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I would like to point out the difference between “not recommended to eat” and “not safe to eat”. Going by your logic here, you should be eating the peels off oranges and the cores of apples and all the tendons and cartilage off your meat. Stuff can be recommended to avoid simply for being gross!
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You mean you don’t eat the tendons and cartilage, then gnaw off the end of the bone and suck out the marrow when you eat wings? … or am I just weird?
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How much blood are you consuming??
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That’s not harmful, it happens when the egg is formed
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It seems that an Egg agricultural specialist jumped in and said that it is NOT recommended to eat a blood red egg because that’s actual blood.
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> it happens when the egg is formed I have to ask the obvious follow-up question.. why aren’t my eggs typically red then? (I am not complaining.)
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because most of the time they don’t get that in there, but that doesn’t make it harmful, reproduction is messy, they don’t all form perfectly
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Someone posted this link below https://eggsafety.org/eggs-inside-and-out/
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It’s honestly a fun job. You get to learn a good bit about the process of farm to table along with getting to see the sights driving from store to store in your area
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Is it true that salmonella is only on the outside eggshell, and poisoning from it comes from the egg/shell cross-contamination when breaking it, or can salmonella infect the egg prior to cracking it?
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Sorry for the long reply: Both are correct. From what I learned, salmonella can be present on the shell but is normally removed when washed (usda standard normally requires eggs to go through a wash cycle to remove fecal matter, bacteria, etc) But if a chicken with salmonella lays an egg, it will also test positive for salmonella. USDA standards we’ll normally have a laying facility test their eggs for salmonella either quarterly or biannually. If they get a positive result, the whole facility is quarantined, and all chickens will either be humanely euthanized or administered medicine(depending on the facility). Until the facility can provide 3 negative tests in a row, no raw eggs can be sold for human consumption.
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