Do you feel guilty eating your fertilized eggs?

[suebee]

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[suebee]

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See, this is exactly what I mean!

 

[milleryardchx]

mmmmm taste like chicken

 

[Dora'smom]

I get it, too. At this point, I have all pullets, as far as I know, but when we briefly had a rooster, and when I used to buy eggs at the farmers market, I would have that brief little discomfort of wondering what the chick would have looked like, if it would have been a pullet or cockeral, how cute it would have been, etc. I definitely hear you. Just seeing that little bullseye made me a little sad. I ate it, anyway, though.

 

[PaulaJoAnne]

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Which method is going to make you a better steward of your chickens and your finances?

 

[Rusty Hills Farm]

Nope. Not at all. I bought them because I like eggs for breakfast. I bought the rooster because I like to hear him crow. I don't want to hatch anything and I don't worry about whether they are fertile or not. I just want a yummy breakfast!

Rusty

 

[suebee]

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Which method is going to make you a better steward of your chickens and your finances?

Huh???

 

[babyblue]

nope, had hatchery hens and mutt roosters. didnt want to know what the babies looked like. chicken mutts are valuable producers of eggs and meat, but I have long standing issues with non purebred animals being bred, from horses to dogs. I see so many animals that are backyard mutts that lived a terriable life. being purebred gives an animal a tiny fraction of a better chance at life. Imo, all pet animals dogs cats horses and the like ... every single mutt or crossbreed should be fixed. things like cows pigs chickens...eating animals it matters a little less, but I cant in good concience breed more myself.

 

[mrbstephens]

I had this question looming in my head when my hens started to lay their first. This thing is, the hen, almost all of the time will lay the egg and then leave it there like it never happened. They won't come to check for it or anything. If no one were to eat it, it would just lay there and ultimately become rotten. That is off course if you don't have any broody hens and at this point I have yet to have any. My hens are about 10 months old and no signs of broodiness what so ever. So, I've been eating them and they are delicious! A fertilized egg has the POTENTIAL of becoming a chick ONLY if you have someone willing to sit on it for several weeks or if you put it in an incubator. Anything other than that is just an egg. I collect mine twice a day just to be sure.

 

[PaulaJoAnne]

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Which method is going to make you a better steward of your chickens and your finances?

Huh???

Is hatching out every egg, going to extend you further then you can afford?
And is it going to produce and excessive amount chickens that you will have to sell or rehome because of space and financial issues?

Making careful selection as to what you need for chicks, chickens and eggs.