Can u eat fertilized eggs????!

[PurplePoppiPpl]

I was hoping to get a rooster (i herad they will protect hens if free ranged) but i wanted to be able to eat eggs...

please help me i sound like an idiot because its probably either a "defintly not" or "yes, if really want to do that you can"....

 

[edible_chicken]

Yes, you can eat fertilized eggs. If you do not pick up eggs daily and leave fertilized eggs in the nest for several+ days, you can be sure the hen has been laying on it and at that point, it is your dissection to eat it. i personally would not eat a fertilized egg if has been in the coop for several days and a hen been laying on it.

 

[Habibs Hens]

it all down to discresion

personally i wouldnt myself

i read that during the egg comming down the tube before lay that 26 hour process the egg gets some form of incubation

thats why if you crack open a fertelised egg you can see a white spot where 26 hours of incubation has occured

although onced layed there is still 21 days to go

 

[nickie]

Yep! I eat one every day. So do my kids, husband, and my parents, just not every day like me. Fertilized are all we get around here.

 

[brahmapapa]

most farm fresh eggs are fertilized because there is at least one rooster. there is nothing wrong with eating a fretilized egg, thats what has been consumed for years. its only since the big commercial egg producing operations have come into play that roosters have been eliminated from the scene.

 

[StarLover21]

Of course! They are 10000% fine to eat!

 

[gryeyes]

There is no difference in taste or nutrition between the two. I eat fertile eggs all the time; I just make sure I gather eggs no less often than every three days. (I have a health condition which saps my energy and it's all I can do to make sure their feeders and waterers are kept full, some days. Sometimes I have no problem and will gather eggs several times a day - that's usually on the weekends. It's during the week when I work that I don't always gather eggs daily.)

Embryos do not begin to form until eggs are incubated, either by a hen or in an incubator. Most hens do not go broody to incubate their eggs, so any left in the nests on cool days are perfectly fine for 2 to 3 days. Hot summer days just might start incubation, if it's at least 99 degrees several days in a row.

Obviously, if a hen is brooding on a clutch for any length of time, I wouldn't want to eat those eggs if she's sat on them 24/7 for a few days already! But I will break THOSE eggs into a separate bowl, first, to make sure I haven't picked up a developing egg.