Bloody Eggs

[MarEng]

Ok - I've always assumed a little bloody show in my chicken eggs was a sign the rooster was doing his job. However, my wife's midwife just told her never to eat eggs with blood in them as it is a sign of salmonella. Needless to say she's a little freaked out - and I guess I'm really lucky. A quick Google search offers a whole range of opinions - so I'm coming to the experts - What say you?

Also, our ducks have started laying - a gift from a neighbor. Are their eggs always as disgusting as they are? When cracked, our duck eggs have a milky white substance in the egg white and smell like duck droppings. Is this is all I get for raising these things from infancy? I'll have to have my wife get out the orange juice cause if this is it we'll be eating a lot of Duck L'orange.

Thanks, Will.

 

[davemhughes]

There are Blood spots and Meat spots, I assume its blood spots you are talking about and neither will hurt you. Blood and meat spots can be caused by the rupture of a blood vessel by the hen on the yolk surface during the egg formation or it can be caused in the wall of the oviduct by a ruptured vessel. There are all sorts of things that can lead to the spots. We always culled the hen when we started seeing blood spots out of her on a routine basis and never used her as breed stock because some believe it also has genetic component to it. We tended to see it most often in our older hens as well. As always I'm no expert. Do a search from one of the big ag universities or poultry sites for a better answer as mine is from memory. Plus if your wife's mid-wife says don't eat it then follow her advice no matter what.

 

[Soundguy]

Everything I've read tends to agree with that. Small red spots in the egg are no big deal. obviously if you carack one open and its rel red.. it may have ben incubating ...

As for the duck eggs being runny... I don't use any eggs that do not appear to have intact yolks or a thick fluid... no watery / lumpy fluid eggs.. etc. especially if they smell bad.

Soundguy

 

[mjarrels]

Can you say Balute... nasty.

mark

 

[dmccarty]

Can you say Balute... nasty.

LOL! I was wonder if you knew about Balutes! There is a TV show about this guy wondering the world eating bizare foods. A week ago he was in the PI and he ate a Balute. He liked it. Course he kept eating worms pulled out of a dead mangrove as well. And last episode he was eating rotten salted cooked meat with eggs.... Which he did NOT like.

FYI, a Balute is a duck egg that has been incubated for 18 days. Not 17. Not 19. 18. Then it is steamed and eaten with vinegar and salt. It looked like a furry hard boiled egg with a beak and feet.

Hungry?

Later,
Dan

 

[scott_vt]

LOL! I was wonder if you knew about Balutes! There is a TV show about this guy wondering the world eating bizare foods. A week ago he was in the PI and he ate a Balute. He liked it. Course he kept eating worms pulled out of a dead mangrove as well. And last episode he was eating rotten salted cooked meat with eggs.... Which he did NOT like.

FYI, a Balute is a duck egg that has been incubated for 18 days. Not 17. Not 19. 18. Then it is steamed and eaten with vinegar and salt. It looked like a furry hard boiled egg with a beak and feet.

Hungry?

Later,
Dan

Afternoon Dan.
You know Im not a fussy eater but I am getting an unpleasant vision here !

 

[mjarrels]

About two months ago my SIL ate a balute in front of my kids to show them what it is... I made CHIEF in the Phillippines but did not eat a balute...

mark

 

[RobertN]

LOL! I was wonder if you knew about Balutes! There is a TV show about this guy wondering the world eating bizare foods. A week ago he was in the PI and he ate a Balute. He liked it. Course he kept eating worms pulled out of a dead mangrove as well. And last episode he was eating rotten salted cooked meat with eggs.... Which he did NOT like.

FYI, a Balute is a duck egg that has been incubated for 18 days. Not 17. Not 19. 18. Then it is steamed and eaten with vinegar and salt. It looked like a furry hard boiled egg with a beak and feet.

Hungry?

Later,
Dan

A guy I worked with recently was an US Army Ranger sniper; was in the first operations in Iraq. We talked about training, long range shooting etc. He learned to eat bugs, which were edible etc. Did it in field ops. I asked him, were there any bugs that were palatable; He said they all tasted pretty bad

 

[mjarrels]

I had a bag of fried grasshoppers in Thailand once... no too bad with a cold beer.

mark

 

[DCRC]

Ok - I've always assumed a little bloody show in my chicken eggs was a sign the rooster was doing his job.

You probably know this, but you don't need a rooster to have eggs.

 

[dmccarty]

Mark/Robert,

The cooking show had some cooked crickets. I can't remember if it was in the PI or Thailand. They looked ok and I think I would try them. The Balute.... Not so sure...

You should see this show and what the man ate in Thailand....

I read years ago about a guy doing research on American Indians out in Utah. I think they were trying to figure out how people managed to live around the Great Salt Lake but this did not really stick with me. What did stick in my head was that they figured that grasshoppers landing in the lake would be blown by the wind to shore where they would be coated in salt and dried by the sun. This preserved them and made them very easy to gather.

A cup of dried salted grasshoppers had the calories of either a Big Mac or a Quarter Pounder.

Hungry?

Later,
Dan

 

[RayH]

Im afraid to think what all I ate when I was in the PI. Ive eaten all kinds of weird looking stuff off those carts in the streets. Just wash it down with some alcohol and move on.
I also went through S.E.R.E school in the PI. We sampled some of the local bug population but werent made to live off them.

I spent a week in Thialand, a couple of us decided to eat only Thia food for a few days. We darn near starved to death. I dont know how those people live off that stuff.

 

[davemhughes]

Note to self: Do not read this post when I first get up, kills all desire for breakfast