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I wanna get several breeds to breed but I am also choosing great egg layers so I can also eat their eggs- but I don't wanna eat fertilized eggs... What is the best way to accomplish this?
 
I ask this often... why wouldn't you eat fertilized eggs?! You couldn't tell they were fertilized by taste and BARELY be able to tell by looking anyways?!

That is just strange to me... Fresh Market grocery store sells 'free range fertile eggs' to eat. I eat fertile eggs everyday, and none fertile mixed together and couldn't tell the difference anyways.

If its really an issue... create seperate pens with walls and don't allow your roos in with the hens you want to get eggs to eat from.
 
I recently bought fresh farm eggs to eat that were fertilized. I didn't think it would be a big deal either. When I cracked them open, quite a few of them had blood in them and two of them had actual babies that had eyeballs inside! This almost ruined my taste for eggs altogether. Thats my reasoning. Otherwise, I was not going to care
 
I was TOTALLY against eating fertilized eggs. The thought of it really bothered me- mostly because of the fear of cracking open a growing embryo. Our coop didn't get done as soon as I had hoped so all of our chickens (including our Dark Cornish meaties) shared a chicken tractor until recently. The girls were mated regularly and our eggs were simply fertilized.

I realized there was absolutely NO difference in taste and that there is NO way they could grow when I collect and refrigerate them twice a day. It makes no difference to me now. Eggs are eggs (except homestead eggs are WAY better than store-bought!)
 
I guess that's a great point, I'm cause myself a lot of trouble just to eat unfertilized eggs... But what do I do when I want babies, if I leave them in there, will the hens naturally sit on them? Or do I need to get them out and put them under a broody hen? And then, once they are born, how will I know which is which?
 

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