Eating fertilized eggs... (please move if in wrong forum)

[danielbrown]

A chick only develops inside a egg when its incubated at 100deg for 21 days. And it takes 24hrs after incubation has started for anything to begin to form. Theres only about two places you will find these conditions, in an incubator, or under a broody hen.

Just collect the eggs every day and you won't have a problem.
you can let eggs sit on the counter, and there won't be any problems unless its stays exactly 100 deg in side your house.

Eggs just last longer in the fridge.
1 month on the counter
2 months in the fridge

BTW some People have incubated and hatched store bought fertilized eggs that have been refrigerated.

 

[TriciaHowe]

I eat my eggs all the time and I have bucco roosters! I also hatch my own eggs. Never had a problem

 

[EricShane]

well, I never knew until recently that you could eat fertilized eggs.. LOL for about a year Ive tossed all my eggs out in the big field every few days or so.. and run to Krogers to buy a dozen eggs! haha.. who knew!?

but, too.. I heard my moms horror stories of cracking open a baby chicken..

Now, I collect them about 3 times a day, wash them and the pt them in the fridge and we use them now..

 

[damselfish]

Oh, Eric, you poor thing! All those eggies wasted...I'm sad for you!

Glad you are enlightened now though!

 

[The Wolf Queen]

Fertile homelade eggs are the BEST

! I always eat them. Just make sure to collect eggs daily and always check random corners you never thought a hen would nest in. Especially if a hen goes missing for a few days(this mostly applies to hens not allowed to free range beacause of predators). But yeah just collect daily and you get a tasty breakfast guaranteed

 

[EricShane]

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LOL I know.. it was alot of eggs, i was thinking earlier.. while I was walking around, how many of those eggs someone could have used.. Oh Well.. Im actually getting ready to go to church where my aunt goes, and take a few dozen to give away.. It gives me a sense of pride

 

[Jennie5193]

I'd be grossed out eating an egg that'd started developing, too... but that is a completely different situation than just a fertilized egg.

If you just crack open a fertilized egg next to a non-fertilized egg... I'd be willing to bet you wouldn't be able to tell the difference!

(I know people *can* tell the difference, but you specifically have to be looking for the bulls-eye... someone that just wants to eat an egg isn't going to be studying it that closely!)

 

[Mr_Jeff]

There's absolutely no harm in eating a fertilized egg. If your mother refuses to eat them, then just tell here that that rooster is really a capon.

 

[averytds]

We eat ours, no problems. I used to buy eggs from a local boy and had the chicken egg problem many times. Went through something like 2 dozen just to get a couple for a cake once. DH said the same thing "If he would just collect them everyday and put in the fridge, that wouldn't happen."

So I just collect everyday and keep in the fridge. I do have 2 who don't always lay in the nest. I try and hit their other favorite spots every day, but if there is ever a question about one possibly being missed for more than that, I keep it separate in the fridge and crack separate in a bowl before I use.

The occasional hidden stash we find gets tossed though.

 

[WalkingOnSunshine]

My best advice is to look at the photos in the sticky at the top of this forum and see if you can stand it.

Basically, what's a little dot in an unfertilized egg is a little bullseye in a fertilized egg.

As long as you collect eggs every day and don't let them sit for prolonged periods at high temperatures, you'll be fine. They don't start to develop until they are at the right temperature. They'll never start to develop in the refrigerator.

Erika