Are fertilized eggs yucky to eat?

[azelgin]

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No. It has to do with the way the yolk was released from the hens ovaries. There are a couple or more threads on here about blood spots. Try a search.

 

[Jennings Gamefowl]

you cant really tell...most eggs you buy in the store are not fertillized plus they are a week old....so be glad your getting fresh eggs....AND you cant tell when eating them.. taste the same

 

[mtnhomechick]

I can't tell the difference between fertile and non fertile.

 

[speckledhen]

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Actually, it is the opposite. They dont keep roosters in with the hens in factory farms.

 

[speckledhen]

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No, that means a capillary burst along the reproductive tract. It's called a blood spot and is quite common. Commercial operations candle them and toss those, which is why you mainly see them in farm fresh eggs.

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

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I didnt say white spot, I said BULLSEYE!
A bullseye is a dot with rings right? It is actually called the germ, but I didnt use that term cause it may have confussed people who didnt understand what it meant.

As for those who say no roos are kept with them, bull.
I have hatched eggs from the plain ol grocery store, not special eggs, just plain ol $1.99 eggs, in the past just to prove this to folks.
To say it NEVER happens is a big statment, It is quite possible for it to happen, I'm sure a lot of farms prevent it from happening, but I have friends that work on poultry farms here, for both meat and egg production,and have been on them MANY times and there are roosters on both, very happy roosters too I might add! LOL.
Lets dont be so quick to disclaim one post, just because you personally havent experienced it. Things are done differently from one region to another, thus, folks have different experiences.
Mine is , grocery store eggs, can be fertile, period.
Yours may not be and that's fine, but never say it's impossible.
Aubrey

 

[jvls1942]

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yes......

 

[Jennings Gamefowl]

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I didnt say white spot, I said BULLSEYE!
A bullseye is a dot with rings right? It is actually called the germ, but I didnt use that term cause it may have confussed people who didnt understand what it meant.

As for those who say no roos are kept with them, bull.
I have hatched eggs from the plain ol grocery store, not special eggs, just plain ol $1.99 eggs, in the past just to prove this to folks.
To say it NEVER happens is a big statment, It is quite possible for it to happen, I'm sure a lot of farms prevent it from happening, but I have friends that work on poultry farms here, for both meat and egg production,and have been on them MANY times and there are roosters on both, very happy roosters too I might add! LOL.
Lets dont be so quick to disclaim one post, just because you personally havent experienced it. Things are done differently from one region to another, thus, folks have different experiences.
Mine is , grocery store eggs, can be fertile, period.
Yours may not be and that's fine, but never say it's impossible.
Aubrey

just wondering if you hatch plain ol store eggs,,,,what breed of chicken did you get....fertile eggs from stores must be very rare..

 

[speckledhen]

The big egg producers who hold the lions' share of the market do not keep roosters in the battery cages of hens. If they did, there would be no room to mate and there is just no reason for them to feed roosters, just not cost effective. Certainly, small markets might buy eggs from farmers who may keep a rooster, but you did say that almost ALL eggs you buy in the grocery store are fertile and that is just not so. No store bought egg we've ever bought has been fertililzed.

most every egg you buy is fertilized​

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

My experience, not yours right? Lets dont turn this simple thread into one of thsoe wars of whos right and whos wrong!
I may have been wrong to say it as all . But in my experience all are so..... that's my opinion on the subject.

As for what kind we got, They were just yellow biddies.
I hatched them and gave them away after proving it works.
Didnt have any use for them, other than proving it happens
Aubrey