Is it possible to get a fertilized chicken egg from the supermarket? or one with a tumor in it?

Question

I made a fried egg yesterday and when i went to eat it a little grey ball was in it!! it was soft, but yet wouldn't squash..i had to cut it with a knife and yellow stuff came out of it!! what was this? was that egg fertilized? could it have been a tumor?? i have no clue what this could have been!! I have never seen anything like this in a fried egg!

it WAS NOT egg yolk in that grey ball it was kind of brownish yellow...

i I know ive asked this question a bunch, but iam really curious and i cannot find anything on the search engines

Answer 1

It was not fertilized.  Eggs that you get at the store will probably never be fertilized.  The chickens have no access to roosters to get the sperm.  So it was probably just a defect with the egg.  There are times when it does happen.  I have gotten eggs with blood spots.  Just something that happens once in a while.  Doesn't mean that a chicken will grow out of them, just something that went wrong while laying.

Answer 2

Couldn't have been a tumor-They are by definition attached to flesh not free floating. My mums friend gives us eggs from her very free range chickens and what they eat greatly affects their eggs - sometimes you get gritty pieces in the occasional egg and it's to do with them eating too much mineral rich food that was meant for other animals on their farm i.e. they walk in to milking parlour and nick any dropped cattle pellets

Answer 3

Hm, I've worked with eggs that contain chick embryos before and they didn't look like a grey ball.  You can definitely tell that they are embryos, they even have eyes.  I doubt it was a tumor either.  Maybe the egg was just bad.

Answer 4

yeah sometimes you get eggs that started to develop but died because of cold or something