Has anyone had a whiteish mass in their egg before? I looked online and some people said it’s intestinal lining some said ovary parts. Not sure, but it looks too big to be the white strandy stuff.

  • BCsven
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    18 days ago

    It actually looks like chiCken fetus to me. The unformed eye in the head blob maybe. Happened once to me also. They are eggs after all, and some get past quality control

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      18 days ago

      Lol quality control implies those chicken farms even have quality to begin with. It’s literally night and day between farm fresh eggs and those weird hardly yellow watery things they claim are eggs from grocery stores.

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    18 days ago

    if this is farm fresh, it might be a fetus. i raised chickens so I’ve seen this before… there’s quite a few streaks of blood in the white as well, suggesting it might be fertilized… you said you didn’t have a rooster but without that knowledge I would have been certain of it. do you have a neighbor with free range chickens who might have a rooster?

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    18 days ago

    I don’t have backyard birds, city slicker I am. I’ve occasionally seen something like this in store bought eggs. I’ve never seen it up this close though and this looks a little big and not as white. I kind of thought it was something normal. Looking it up, could it be chalazae?