Gender? Trader Joe's chicks

[SIMPleChick]

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Oh my goodness! Have you never heard of BALUT EGGS??????? Google it......hehehehe
Better yet, watch this!

 

[SIMPleChick]

By the way...I have NEVER had a balut egg, nor will I ever!!!!

 

[IwannaBEaMERMAID]

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Oh my goodness! Have you never heard of BALUT EGGS??????? Google it......hehehehe
Better yet, watch this!

OMG I TRIED THAT WHEN I WENT TO THE PHILIPENES !! IT WAS NASTY !! I THREW UP !!

 

[SIMPleChick]

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Oh my goodness! Have you never heard of BALUT EGGS??????? Google it......hehehehe
Better yet, watch this!

OMG I TRIED THAT WHEN I WENT TO THE PHILIPENES !! IT WAS NASTY !! I THREW UP !!

You actually tried it??????LOL!!! You are BRAVE!!!! Did you suck the "juice" out like they say is the best???

 

[Anianna]

Yea, I don't think I'll watch that video. Cultural cuisine is quite interesting if not a little .... ew .... at times. When my aunt was doing mission work in Sierra Leone, she told me if I ever came to visit, not to order the bacon bits. During the rainy season, the termites get flooded out and apparently they collect them and sprinkle them on salads, calling them bacon bits.

I have no qualms about eating most animals, but I am bothered when there is a lack of respect for the animal while it is alive and boiling it alive is just really disrespectful. I see no good purpose for torturing the animal before eating it. That's what bothers me about those balut eggs (though I personally don't think I would enjoy eating such a thing for other reasons, as well

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Well, I just don't understand the purpose of eating fertilized eggs. I'm quite happy in my world of egg or chicken!

 

[X2Farm]

A fertilized egg doesn't develop or start to until its been incubated (usually) I'm fairly certain the ones sold at stores will just show the telltale bullseye in the yolk, not be a partially developed chick.

All eggs from our girls are fertilized, since every pen has a rooster in it (well, they SHOULD be

). They eat just like non fertilized eggs do, and just as delicious!

 

[comptonsgonecountry]

I love Trader Joes but I have to say I have never seen fertilized eggs at the one in Tyson, VA. I'll have to check out the eggs more closely when I'm up that way again.

 

[Anianna]

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Sure, but there's a difference between eating an egg that may be fertilized and specifically shopping for ones that you know with certainty are. I'm missing what the purpose is of specifically going for the fertilized eggs.

 

[X2Farm]

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Sure, but there's a difference between eating an egg that may be fertilized and specifically shopping for ones that you know with certainty are. I'm missing what the purpose is of specifically going for the fertilized eggs.

heck, I dunno.... your guess is as good as mine

 

[gryeyes]

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Sure, but there's a difference between eating an egg that may be fertilized and specifically shopping for ones that you know with certainty are. I'm missing what the purpose is of specifically going for the fertilized eggs.

I have a couple ideas why they're marketed:

1. For the people who prefer "natural" methods of chicken keeping (without keeping any chickens of their own), getting eggs advertised as fertile "proves" the hens are getting SOME sort of normal life. Chances are a commercial chicken farm wouldn't go to the extra expense of Artificially Inseminating their hens, but just keep a rooster with 'em. Which also means the chickens aren't kept in cages 24/7.

2. For the people who believe there is more nutrition in fertilized eggs. Yah, we know there's no difference, but you can't tell everybody that. Even my landlady believes it and was pleased when one of my pullets "turned into" a cockerel. She was pleased to tell me I would be eating "better" eggs, and since I give her eggs, she would be too. In her mind.

I didn't set all the eggs I bought - I cracked a couple open to see the bulls-eye before I set the rest of the eggs. Yup, fertilized. Okay, there's a chance these just might hatch! (And four of 'em did.) I had dug through the whole section to find the freshest eggs, too. One dozen were less than a week from their laid dates. The second dozen I bought at a different TJs and it was 9 days old. That's the dozen that only hatched one chick...