Can you eat 'infertile broody eggs' that have been sat on for 2-3 weeks?

[buttersbrood]

Hi all,

We just found a nest of 18 infertile eggs, with our missing in action hen sitting on it. She's been missing for about 2.5-3 weeks and would have been sitting in her nest for that amount of time. We have a large and bushy garden, so she was able to hide herself away. The eggs are definitely infertile as we have no roosters.

My question is: can we still eat the eggs? I've done the float test on them, and they are all on the bottom, but with the round side pointing up. Definitely not floating to the top, but also not flat on the bottom.

Can we still eat these eggs? I feel very wary as she's been sitting on them for so long and keeping them so warm....

Any thoughts or experience anyone?

Thanks!

 

[SunHwaKwon]

I would not since they've been at high temps.

 

[FranzBear]

Hi all,

We just found a nest of 18 infertile eggs, with our missing in action hen sitting on it. She's been missing for about 2.5-3 weeks and would have been sitting in her nest for that amount of time. We have a large and bushy garden, so she was able to hide herself away. The eggs are definitely infertile as we have no roosters.

My question is: can we still eat the eggs? I've done the float test on them, and they are all on the bottom, but with the round side pointing up. Definitely not floating to the top, but also not flat on the bottom.

Can we still eat these eggs? I feel very wary as she's been sitting on them for so long and keeping them so warm....

Any thoughts or experience anyone?

Thanks!

Going against the grain here. It's actually considered a delicacy in certain south eastern countries...except it was far worse than yours as they were were fertile and rotten (rotten on purpose), so you'd be relative safe. I say RELATIVELY because everything carries risk. thanks to Best Ever Food Review show on YouTube i learned that they actually eat the ROTTEN embryo ones that were green and grey, cooked into an omelette..slathered in sauce to make the funk go away. even my adventurous asian ass wouldn't eat ROTTEN ones, ive had non-rotten ones that were incubated and they were fine. Ive had them hard boiled, and the egg whites have become rubbery due to evaporation. Ive also had ones recently that were a few days old with embryos that i removed from the broody hen because another egg exploded and covered all of them in egg gunk so hatching them wouldnt have worked...They made a delicious omelette and after cooking the embryos disappeared as they were so small...the texture of the omlette wasnt different from fresh eggs. I sincerely dont mean to disgust anyone but i also came from a background where wasting food is considered a sin, and the only times ive ever gotten food poisoning is from eating other people's food, never food I've prepared myself. follow safe food preparation rules,
Like cooking thoroughly at high temps, and you'd be fine.

You can always bury them in the garden as fertilizer if you chicken out, the plants will thank you.

 

[Folly's place]

Throw them out! Famous saying; 'When in doubt, throw it out' is best advise concerning food items. Do you really enjoy having food poisoning? Is it worth it for the cost of eighteen eggs? I don't think so!
People have eaten amazingly disgusting 'foods' in different places and different times, and fortunately very few of us here have ever been that hungry (or nutty?).
Mary

 

[FranzBear]

Throw them out! Famous saying; 'When in doubt, throw it out' is best advise concerning food items. Do you really enjoy having food poisoning? Is it worth it for the cost of eighteen eggs? I don't think so!
People have eaten amazingly disgusting 'foods' in different places and different times, and fortunately very few of us here have ever been that hungry (or nutty?).
Mary

millions of people also eat incubated eggs around the world with no ill effects... different ways of life, different choices.

Please do not call these people 'nutty' or 'desperate'. You are putting down entire cultures and peoples...which is never a good look. Calling them disgusting 'food', implying it is not food, is uncalled for. Especially when they are not eaten out of desperation but CHOICE. Foods such as balut is regularly eaten in the Philippines and is considered nutritious and delicious and even a national dish...I'm sure many people around the world would actively choose to eat balut over say, McDonalds, which in my eyes is hardly 'food' considering how over-processed it is.

yes, in western standards which has high levels of hygiene, it is generally frowned upon to do such things and as a result, there is FAR less food poisionings... HOWEVER, from personal experience, I have never gotten food poisoning from eating foods this, and like I said, I've only ever gotten food poisoning from eating food prepared by others, once in an eatery in Beijing (fair) but also once in a restaurant in Brisbane (Australian city, did not see that coming). I prepare my foods very carefully and cook them at the right temperatures. You will always find someone with differing opinions than you on the Internet, no need to be disrespectful. I'm only sharing my personal experiences. They can make the decision up themselves - why else did they ask the question? To get answers. Not all answers will be the same. The original poster asked a very valid question in my opinion.

 

[Folly's place]

Sorry to be misunderstood here. People who know what to look for and manage when choosing which such items to eat have no doubt figured out what's edible And what isn't. here most uf us have no such knowledge or experience to draw on.
And the two years that we lived overseas involved many many episodes of food poisoning, definitely not fun.
And cooking and eating eggs with fresh live embryos isn't no nice for the embryos, but safer than something that's been dead and possibly infected with a nasty whatever, especially if not cooked right.
Mary

 

[Bigtom Turkey]

I'm going to second the don't eat opinion. The chance of surviving eating those eggs is high. But as previously stated 18 eggs only costs a couple dollars, its not worth it.