Can you eat fertilized eggs?

[B. Saffles Farms]

Quote:
My stomach might not but I will.

 

[Davaroo]

Quote:
My stomach might not, but I will.

Redundancy Alert
Socio-cultural conditioning wins, every time. If you were native Filipino or Thai-Loc, you'd think nothing of such things - or worse. It's all in the mind.
(PS - my "mind" wouldnt eat 'em either!)

 

[B. Saffles Farms]

Quote:
My stomach might not, but I will.

Redundancy Alert
Socio-cultural conditioning wins, every time. If you were native Filipino or Thai-Loc, you'd think nothing of such things - or worse. It's all in the mind.
(PS - my "mind" wouldnt eat 'em either!)

LOL

 

[Sissy]

How can u tell if they are fertile when taking them from the nest boxs.do u candle them ?
This sounds dumb..but give me a break LOL

 

[patandchickens]

if there is a rooster in there, chances are the eggs are fertile, most of em anyhow. Really that's all people are talking about here - whether to eat eggs from hens exposed to roosters

Pat

 

[Davaroo]

Pats right, within the first few days you cant really tell much of anything. If you get them in the fordge right off, you will never know.

 

[Akane]

You can't tell if the egg is fertile from the outside until you incubate it for awhile and a chick starts growing. Even when you break the egg open the difference is only the size of a tiny white spot you wouldn't notice if you weren't looking for it.

 

[Leah-yes I know I'm crazy]

So my SIL says she can't eat the egg I just dropped into the frying pan because she saw that it was fertile...I have three roo's so my eggs had better be fertile....but what she was pointing at was actually the structure that keeps the yolk in the center of the egg, so I showed the indicator that the egg had been fertalized was actually that faint bullseye structure sitting on the yolk. That's when I first realized that I had totally crossed over into the "BYC chicken world." As I was giving her a detailed explanation and lesson in chicken biology it crossed my mind that SpeckledHen would approve and I've learned a lot here.

Yes, you can eat fertilized eggs.

 

[deerman]

Leah-yes I know I'm crazy :

So my SIL says she can't eat the egg I just dropped into the frying pan because she saw that it was fertile...I have three roo's so my eggs had better be fertile....but what she was pointing at was actually the structure that keeps the yolk in the center of the egg, so I showed the indicator that the egg had been fertalized was actually that faint bullseye structure sitting on the yolk. That's when I first realized that I had totally crossed over into the "BYC chicken world." As I was giving her a detailed explanation and lesson in chicken biology it crossed my mind that SpeckledHen would approve and I've learned a lot here.

Yes, you can eat fertilized eggs.

Yep, you got it. They are not that easy to see. Most will be if you run a rooster with your hens.​