care if you eat fertile eggs?

[blacktailsmom]

When I was in school, we had home ec still in 6th grade (for the girls) .... and part of it was making scrambled eggs. We were told to look for blood spots, to take them out for asthetics. She said they were what would have been chicks if they had stayed with the mommy chicken. We didn't question beyond that.

 

[gritsar]

I eat fertile eggs every single day. My customers do too and they probably never give it a second thought; even though they know I have a roo and that the eggs are fertile.
Fertile eggs are NOT baby chicks. There's one cell difference between a fertile and non-fertile. Certain conditions and things have to happen before it starts to develop at all.
In addtion, blood spots and meat spots in no way indicate a fertile egg. You can get them from flocks without a rooster within 50 miles of the flock. The reason you don't see them much in store bought eggs is that those eggs are candled before packaging. Eggs showing spots are sold instead for use in making animal feed and other products.

 

[Lollipop]

Ya`ll might like to read this.........Pop

http://www.afn.org/~poultry/newsletr/1997/papr97.pdf

 

[JScatt69]

I sell and give away some of my eggs and my Hispanic friends prefer fertilized eggs. They ask if I have any "Huevos de Matrimonio" or Marriage Eggs

 

[SilverPhoenix]

I'm a vegetarian and everything, but to be honest, I don't care of the eggs I eat are fertile or not. The potential for a life is, to me, not the same thing as life, so it doesn't bother me. I've been eating fertile eggs for a long time, and will likely continue to do so. Having an incubator now, I think I'm more aware of the fact that I could stick them in and have chicks, but ultimately I can't hatch everything anyway, so... Nope, it doesn't bother me at all, really.

 

[Beekissed]

It's a don't ask, don't tell policy. I never mention the fertility of my eggs when selling....all my customers can clearly see my roo walking the yard and can surely use their imagination. They all taste exactly the same...fresh, rich and wonderful! That is all my customers really care about anyway.

I wouldn't sweat the small stuff....folks have hang ups about the strangest things. The same folks who are vegans because they love animals will turn a blind eye that most commercial veggie crops are fertilized with CAFO manure...the very cruelest way of raising animals for food.

 

[Kim_NC]

It doesn't bother me to eat fertile eggs, and most people wouldn't know the difference. However, plenty of folks imagine all kinds of things are a developing chick in an egg - blood spots, meat spots, the chalaza. I even had a friend (an adult in her early 50s mind you) who thought the chalazae were sperm. *sigh*

We give new customers a handout that dispells the myths, and explains the nutritional differences between farm eggs and commercial eggs.

 

[wormtowndavis]

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This is how I feel too. I'm also a vegetarian, but when we chose to get chickens, I wanted a roo. My family eats fertile eggs every day.

 

[A.T. Hagan]

In the years I've been selling eggs I've had just one customer ask if the eggs were fertile or not. They wanted unfertile, but decided fertile were OK as well.

.....Alan.

 

[12GAGirl]

Eating a fertile egg and feeling bad is silly in my opinion because it isnt a live chicken in that state. It is as silly as seeing vegatarians sporting leather jackets, purses and shoes. Yes, a cow had to die for that fashion statement! I am not a vegatarians by no means but I am totally against animals being tortured and abused but meat eaters are not terrible people. Hunters should not be burned over an open flame either for living life as our forefathers done before us. We eat fertile eggs because there is nothing as cool as hearing a rooster crowing and talking to his hens. And yes we eat meat at almost every meal but we are also the biggest animal lovers you will ever meet. We own eight cows, two dog who rule our home, 9 chickens, and several cats!