Balut Eggs

[KWSRetMSgt]

I'm testing the waters to figure out what the concensus as to what folks feel about balut eggs.

I have several Asian neighbors and since they discovered I have ducks they keep asking me about the eggs. And when the hens will be laying. I've been approached about these type of eggs and I'm not sure what to do.

Balut eggs can go for as much as $5.00 a piece, a hatchery I checked on sells them 20 eggs for $65.00 + shipping & taxes.

 

[Cluky]

it all depends on a person in my opinion. personally I don't care for them however as you mentioned some people REALLY like them. what do you mean how people feel about it? it is either you hate it or love it type of situation

 

[KWSRetMSgt]

I guess I should have been a little more percise, Yeah I was talking about the situation of taking the eggs from the mother after brooding on them for 10 to 18 days.

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

The question isn't really "how do others feel about it?"
How do you feel about it? Is there enough demand to make taking those eggs worth it after you and your hen have invested 10-18 days developing them?
If that's the issue, the hens wasted time, you could always leave her one or two and sell the others.
Good luck, if I had demand for them I would consider selling them.

 

[Kimmyh51]

Given they have proven that a developing embryo can suffer and feel pain from 7 days on, I find it horrifying that anyone thinks any amount of money is worth putting a tiny innocent little creature through the agony of being boiled alive...

What is wrong with people that they think it's ok to treat any living feeling creature this way?

Sorry if this seems harsh, but so is boiling any creature able to feel pain alive, or selling an animal to someone else who intends to boil it alive.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Not to go down a controversial path here but the same goes for lobster and crawfish. Boiled alive. Millions of people eat them. People eat live monkey brains too.
I feel the same about people that insist on incubating double yolk eggs. Why would you put those embryos through that?

 

[Kimmyh51]

Not to go down a controversial path here but the same goes for lobster and crawfish. Boiled alive. Millions of people eat them. People eat live monkey brains too.
I feel the same about people that insist on incubating double yolk eggs. Why would you put those embryos through that?

I personally would not eat lobster and crayfish that have been boiled alive, or monkey brains (wouldn't eat them regardless of how they were killed and cooked) and would never intentionally incubate a double yolk egg.

I also won't take any egg out of a nest that has started to develop, and consider it my responsibility, (if a duck I had not planned to breed, managed to start a sneaky nest that I didn't find till babies were growing) to deal with that by doing all I can to allow the babies to hatch, and then feed, shelter and care for those babies for their entire life.

Because of this I will never get rich from my duck egg business, but I'd rather be able to live with the way I have treated my birds.

And if one day, in the next life, one of my ducks, or God, came up to me and asked me to explain anything about the way I cared for and managed my birds, I would be able to honestly answer any question they had knowing I'd done nothing to be ashamed of, and knowing id done my best....

And yes... In my head, in heaven ducks will speak perfect English....(or whatever native tongue is needed) can't wait to hear the things they will say lol

 

[Birds of a Feather]