Can you hatch store bought fertile eggs-from super market

[K&H Chicken Farm]

I read the USDA requirement for fertile eggs and eggs must be 80% fertile to lable as such.

 

[greyfields]

Have you honestly ever seen any in a store? I'd be curious where.

Some of my customers swear you can see the 'spot' if an egg is fertile. It is of course a meat spot. But many people don't want to hear it and think they are eating chicken sperm and are grossed out. Their loss.

OH! And just for the record, I spend a lot of time in England with my in laws. Eggs there are not refrigerated for sale in grocery stores. It really creeped me out at first. But now I've 'warmed' to the idea. People are not dropping dead on the streets because the entire nation eats unrefrigerated eggs. Imagine the shock on the face of my WSDA food inspector if I suggested I'd sell room temperature eggs at the Farm Market?

 

[K&H Chicken Farm]

greyfields : yes I have seen them and bought them and have them in my bactor at this time. Out of 48 eggs 23 are developing The carton says Nutri-fresh Fertile Eggs from vegetarian hens with roosters. I bought mine at a heath food store here in Redding but there are shipped up from SoCA and sold all over the place.

 

[Justino]

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they have to be labled FERTILE EGGS

 

[plymouthrockFarm123]

i live in the okanagan in british columbia can anyone tell me were to get fertilized eggs from a supermarket?? What brands?? What store??
can some one help me!?


Thank you

 

[penelope77]

funny topic. i read something the other day by someone who said the eggs in the fridge hatch better than the room temp ones for them. i have one egg, i call my b-day egg, that i put in the fridge from my hen. we were gonna eat it but i got to thinking that it was probably fertile and i should have put it in the bator. so i got it out and it is developing. i've never seen fertile eggs in the store. interesting, i'll have to keep an eye out for those. i personally do things all the time just to see what will happen. i think there is a name for people like that, besides stupid, i just can't think of it. well curious obviously but a technical name is what i'm trying to remember.

 

[penelope77]

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if you want to buy one i got my Thermal Hova Bator Incubator(1602-N) at www.lllreptile.com for 39.99 on sale and after shipping it was just under $50. tons of people make them though but i'm not that cool. it is cheaper to make them that's for sure, especially if you have alot of the stuff laying around already.

 

[kellim]

I have 2 in my incubator that I had in the fridge for over a week and they are developing nornally. They are due around the 8th, but currently i see movement and very good veins.

 

[seriousbill]

I've hatched a lot of eggs. And once, a few years ago, I decided to incubate some that had been in the fridge alongside some that hadn't. I can't remember the numbers now, but I'd guess it was about half a dozen each. I can remember the general impression I got:

The non-refrigerated eggs hatched better and earlier. The ones that had been in the fridge had more quitters and the couple that hatched were a day later. Just my experience to add to the pool.

 

[Cassandra]

Ok ok ok.... WHY... would anyone want to buy fertile eggs in a grocery store.

I get why Safeway would sell them (because there is a market for them.) But why is there a market? Is there a demographic of people who want to hatch eggs from Safeway? Or is there some myth knocking around that fertile eggs are somehow superior in taste or nutrition?

Cassandra
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