What to do with roosters

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woodsman23

woodsman23

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I found out for sure this am that i have 2 roos, (~17 weeks old) both were crowing at each other this morning. NOW what do i do with them? keep em, eat em, give them away?. I like them but we want to eat the eggs and i don't know if this will work for us. Does a fertile look any different and how long can we wait till we eat it before it gets to far along? does placing them eggs in the fridge stop them from growing babies??. I am so new at this but i would love to keep the roos but and not sure what to do about eggs?? any help here would be great. also would the hens hatch them out if i leave them in the nest?
 
Hi. You can not tell the difference with a fertile or non fertile egg. The eggs will never even start to develop anything in them, unless they are put in a incubator, or brooded by a broody hen for several days.

Even after several days under a broody hen, the developing chick in the egg will be so tiny and difficult to see with the naked eye.

You can leave the eggs out for as long as you like. They will never develop into chicks, because they are not being incubated.

Just collect you eggs normally, and if you see a hen brooding some eggs you can still eat them, unless she has been brooding the eggs for over a week.

As a side note, I live in Asia and people actually love to eat a boiled egg with a chick inside! Not me though!
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A fertile egg will have a little white "bullseye" on the yolk. But it's perfectly o.k. to eat.

jak2002003: one of my broodies accidentally broke one of her eggs recently after sitting a week. There was a tiny chick embryo in it, with huge eyes and the start of a body and limbs. I would not recommend eating an egg after a broody's been on it longer than a few hours.
 

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