Got one of these tonight, was looking for an explanation. Fortunately I was going to scramble the eggs, not hardboil because that white yolk was seriously disgusting. Had I bitten into that? Ho man. It had a tough, thick outer membrane, half filled with clear fluid like egg white, but thicker. It actually took a little force to tear through the membrane to see the inner contents. That would have been extremely chewy. It really put me off my appetite. That is not a normal stage of development. Some really nasty defect. Joy. We all got retard eggs.

I’ve been trying to find out about the clear/white egg yolk today. We have a barnyard in Texas. What I picked up yesterday was a white round very small egg about 5/8″ in diameter. I just thought it was a guinea egg, as we have them. This morning, for grins, I cracked it open to see how small it was, and I couldn’t believe my eyes! The yolk was very promienent, but everything was the color of the egg white. No color in the yolk at all. I guess it’s an oddity now. I made an omelet this morning with 2 chicken eggs, 1 duck egg, and the 1 teeny guinea egg. Now I’m wondering what the heck I ate! We have a pond and turtles, so now I don’t know. I haven’t found where a species produces colorless yolks in their eggs. I’m anxious to find another one, because the evidence is now gone! The egg was round, not oval, and it was a whitish egg, not brown. Any ideas, anyone?

Well! We just hard boiled a bunch of eggs to find one had a pure white yolk as well! I can’t find any other website or explanation of why or how on the internet. We did photograph it and I will upload it soon. Strange. It’s nice to see others have found the same thing, but I still want to know the how and why. Perhaps they would have been albino?

i found this blog when looking up the same question. My boyfriend told me about a white egg yolk he came accross and i went online to look for answers. He called it an ‘albino egg’ but i wonder why it is colored like that. the only reason i could think would be some sort of gene that is very rare in chickens. If anyone finds out please let me know.

I just cracked an egg in a frying pan that not only had one white yolk but it also had one yellow yolk. A twin egg how freakish. The white yolk was rounder and tougher than the yellow. Grossed me out and now I probably will never eat another egg again.I took pictures of this and saved the egg. Now I’m going to play the lottery.

i just had one for lunch!!! really weird as well cos i ate it and now reading the above i’m no longer sure that was such a good idea…i mean, if someone’s mom doesn’t even know what it is??? I have to admit i didn’t enjoy eating it. It tasted of nothing. If i get ill i will report back…odd…

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As part of the research for the answer, I also contacted the American Egg Board. They’ve just come back to me with a response from Hilary Thesmar, Ph.D., director of the Egg Safety Center:

“The color of the yolk is dependent on the diet of the hen. Hens fed wheat based diets will produce eggs with very pale yolks. Corn based diets allow hens to produce eggs with yellow yolks. Around the world, consumers have different preferences for yolk color. In the US, yellow is preferred. Yolks can be white to a very dark orange color”

I think some of us may be discussing different types of experiences. I know my own personal experience (and a couple other people sound similar) would not be attributable to diet etc. My personal experience was in no way normal development. It was clearly a developmental defect- genetic accident. Beyond the fact the yolk was perfectly clear like egg white, the yolk was enveloped in a thick, tough, white membrane- like a layer of opaque white skin. As in if you held the membrane up to light, you wouldn’t see through it. Not to be disgusting, but almost as if the (purely clear like egg white) were contained in a round enclosure comprised of pure white afterbirth. That sort of texture, and quite tough as well. It took a fair bit of force to tear it open to see the inner contents. No one would be paying to eat this. I couldn’t pay someone to ingest it. Doesn’t surprise me there is not alot of information out on this defect as in 38 years I have only witnessed this once. And I eat a LOT of eggs.

It would be great if someone could get some pictures- uncooked preferably to the doctor on that website. From the sound of it, she isn’t even aware there is such a phenomenon. I imagine she would be extremely interested to see it.

As to health or whatnot… really. Don’t worry about it. Gross as it may be, at the end of the day it’s only protein, genetically defective or not. Not going to hurt you. Only sickness you could expect is the gross out factor.

Haha another ‘me too’! just had mine fried, in wales…. i reckon it was going to turn into an albino chicken or something

Have been looking for an answer to a white yolk found today! Didn’t look ‘healthy’ enough to give the kids for tea, but my husband apparently found one in the same box which he ate for breakfast today – he’s been farting like a trooper ever since!!!! (but is still alive…..)

Well I came across a white yolk too…that’s why posting this. Boiled an egg and when I opened to give to yellow to my son, to my surprise I could not find any yellow. The texture is of yellow’s but the color is just white.

I work at a zoo in the U.S. and came across one of these white yolked eggs in one of my capuchin diets, it had the same texture and smell of the other egg yolks, just not the color. I took a picture of it with my camera phone, it alone as well as with another yellow yolk for comparison. After discussing it with my coworkers we fed it to the monkeys anyway, they ate it as if there was no difference. I showed the pictures to our vet later in the day and she had never heard of it before. I’ve delt with thousands of boiled eggs and this is my first white yolk, I guess I should feel lucky since this seems to be so rare.

i ate the hard boiled white egg yolk on june 26th. I know the date because i posted a comment aobut it. Well I ate it and nothing happened still alive!

It can be down to diet. Came on here to see if it had more info for someone who asked. I have chickens and know free range hens produce yellow yolks when they have plenty of grass. Battery eggs tend to be paler but get some yellow from the diet they are provided with i think its carotene, sometimes they add marigold petals to food to increase the colour of the egg yolk. Nothing wrong with the egg.