caged hens- fertilized eggs??

[klf73]

I don't have any pullets laying yet, so I have to get my eggs at the grocery store still. I cannot afford the "real" eggs because my family is so large, it's just too expensive. With that aside, I was reading the egg carton and it says "caged hens" etc. I was cracking the eggs open and all were fertilized

. Is this the way it always is? I never noticed before. Of course I had to bring some to room temp to throw in the bator, scientific purposes of course

(I know it's been done, but was still curious)

 

[horsejody]

Exactly what did you see that makes you think they were fertilized?

 

[chickensforever]

That really doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Could you have been looking at blood spots or something?

 

[chickenlady]

What do you mean 'real' eggs? What brand are these eggs? Was this a regular grocery store? Sounds odd they would be fertile. Let us know about the incubation!

 

[klf73]

They all have the bullseye that someone posted pics of (can't remember exactly who it was) to tell that the eggs were fertile. What I meant by "real" eggs was the higher priced eggs that are free range etc.(which I was told taste better, I don't know) Sorry, bad choice of words. How about I just bought the cheap eggs

The box says they are fresh local eggs. I guess I will see if they are fertilized...

 

[chickenlady]

Cheap eggs, lol, thats what I buy too. the cheaper the better, lol. Well, until my girls decide to earn their keep anyway. If it just says fresh local eggs, maybe they do get if from a local farm and they could be fertile if that is the case.

Is the bator fired up and ready??

Would love to see if these develop.

 

[klf73]

yes, I just set some bc marans yesterday, so the bator is going

 

[purr]

when you say fertilized do you mean they were starting to grow cause you can eat fertile eggs.

 

[Colored Egg Farmer]

There caged eggs and fertalized... that very uncommon. That would mean there would have to be a rooster in almost every cage.... So that farmer really didn't do a good job sexing or you might me seeing the wrong thing. Having a rooster in every cage would not be very profitable for that farmer.

 

[Adri]

I had been getting farm fresh fertilized Brahma eggs from a friend over the past year, and when I bought some eggs from the grocery store, I was surprised that some, but not all of them, appeared to be fertilized too. The company's website says that they are not fertilized because there is no rooster in their barns, so I really wish that I had photographed the fertilized eggs that we saw. I wish I had an incubator going to attempt what you are doing! I'm interested to hear what happens.