Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Poultry and Pets => The Hen House => Topic started by: lord croaker on December 31, 2009, 16:46
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hi ,this is my first post. have got 4 hens everything fine since may 09 until this week
when 2 eggs laid on different days have had large amounts of blood in egg whites. please could you advise... : :
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I don't know the answer to this, maybe someone else can help you, but I was just wondering whether they are fertilised eggs, do you have a cockerill?
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hi ,i do'not have a cockerill used some eggs today the amount of blood seems to be
getting less.i wonder if i am over feeding with lettice+greens usually twice a day thanksyou
for the reply
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They get all they need from the layers pellets so you could try removing all treats for a few days and see if that makes a difference. I would have thought too much lettuce & cabbage would just give them the runs. Are all your chooks laying these type of eggs or is it just one. I think sometimes the odd hen does have this problem.
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hi , i have a feeling it might be just the one chuck ,will stop the treats for a while have
noticed poo is runny ,will let you know how we get on thanks...
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Hello I am Grumpy Roughlee.
How much blood are we talking?
Photos of the eggs cracked in a white bowl would be good.
Not scrambled.
It is quite normal to have the odd blood spot or part of the "womb"
I will not be food related so do not stop the treats or change the pellets/mash.
Unless your treating them with barbed wire?
Its a multi purpose hole you know, for poop and eggs.
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Its a multi purpose hole you know, for poop and eggs.
Ahhh Ruff, you have such a way with words ??? :tongue2: I agree though, unlikely to be food related and a photo would be much appreciated. For example the photo below is a perfectly normal egg, although more heavily bloodied than usual.
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Me er Werds. I is illiterate. Honest.
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I don't know the answer to this, maybe someone else can help you, but I was just wondering whether they are fertilised eggs, do you have a cockerill?
I thought it wasn't possible to tell if eggs were fertile from this?? :unsure:?? Do you know??
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I don't know the answer to this, maybe someone else can help you, but I was just wondering whether they are fertilised eggs, do you have a cockerill?
I thought it wasn't possible to tell if eggs were fertile from this?? :unsure:?? Do you know??
They would only be blood in the egg if it had been fertilised and been sat on for at least a few days. i.e. the embryo had started to grow.
You can tell if the egg is fertile if there is a white dot in the yolk see photo below.
(http://animalsinthecity.webs.com/FertileEggPIx.jpg)
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hi, since my last message a couple of weeks ago the problem with eggs
seems to have stopped there has been no more exessive blood in eggs.