Eggs with Blood Spots: Fact Check It’s breakfast time and you are about to make your morning time delicious with a tasty egg dish. You break the egg into a bowl and wait, what? “There is a blood spot in it, how come?”, “Ohh, what do I do now?”, “Should I throw it away or are they safe to consume?”, “I am seeing this for the first time!” Hold on! Don’t panic. Take out a few minutes to read this article to know why this occurs and if they are safe to eat or not. Why do they occur? Blood spots may occur either on egg yolks or egg whites. On the egg yolks, they occur because of the rupturing of the small blood vessels present in the ovaries during the egg-laying process. And they occur on the egg white when bleeding happens after the egg is released into the oviduct. So basically it is quite a natural phenomenon. How frequent is their occurrence? Coming across a blood spot is a rare phenomenon. It is such rare that the frequency of its occurrence in the aver
The Story of Double Yolk Eggs Have you ever seen an egg with two yolks in it? No, we aren’t talking anything about magic. That’s a true thing. Some eggs can have two, three or four yolks inside it. The world record for most yolks inside one eggshell is NINE. Yes! You read that right! Someone amongst our readers might have experienced this or at least heard of this phenomenon. If you haven’t heard of this, don’t worry. Stick with us through the blog as we explain you what exactly ‘Double Yolkers’ are? Double yolk eggs are normally produced by young flocks. The young hen has started laying eggs but her reproductive system is not yet developed leaving behind outcome like double yolk. The probability of this phenomenon occurring is 1 in 1000 eggs. A fully grown hen will release a new yolk in 30 to 70 minutes after laying an egg but in the case of a young one, this process is caused to speed up causing two yolks to release rather than one in that time span. Because this is a rare ph