Are fertilized eggs yucky to eat?

[OrpingtonManor]

Dusting off some old brain cells here. It's been a few years since I was an ag student. The white spot on the surface of the yolk is called the germinal spot, which once fertilized is the blastoderm, the early term for the cells that divide and become the embryo. The yellow part of the yolk is actually what feeds the growing embryo.

I may have some of the small details wrong, but I know that the yolk doesn't become the embryo, but feeds the embryo, with the bulk of it being absorbed into the chick's abdominal cavity just before hatching.

 

[speckledhen]

That's correct, Orpington Manor

Aubrey, no one is saying the eggs you buy in your local area are not fertilized, but the bulk of the eggs from commercial producers in the U.S. are not. That's just a simple fact. No argument intended.

 

[jvls1942]

most eggs in the stores are from caged layers. so i contend that MOST store eggs are not fertile..

Out of 50,000 chickens in a battery set-up it is likely that a rooster could go undetected and that is where you might get fertilized eggs.. then you have free range or semifree range flocks and the same incidence could happen..

and you are right, no one statement can cover the whole spectrum