When you eat a chicken egg what is the brown/red bit sometimes attached to the yolk?!
I'm a vegetarian and I occasionally eat free range eggs. However, I seriously get put off eggs when I see this brown tiny lump attached to the yolk. What is it?!! I thought eggs were infertile so it can't be a chick- can it? I thought when chickens were laying for eggs (to be sold) the rooster wasn't present?
I find it hard enough to eat food that isn't fresh: salad, fruit, veg so I hope what you're going to tell me isn't going to put me off too much! Thanks.
I find it hard enough to eat food that isn't fresh: salad, fruit, veg so I hope what you're going to tell me isn't going to put me off too much! Thanks.
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It's just from a ruptured blood vessel during the egg formation. They can be in infertile eggs. They call them blood spots. Nothing to worry about just pick it out with a utensil. Some free range eggs are fertile, it will usually say so on the box, but it wouldn't be a chick forming even if that was the case as the eggs are collected daily.
I keep chickens
sorry..but its the chick embryo. with the free-range hens, they lay the eggs so that they will hatch, but they are taken so we have them to eat...
It's the embryo