How to assure eggs WON'T hatch?

[badflash]

If you want to sell eggs for eating and want to make sure that people don't hatch them, what do you do? Is there a certain amount of time in the fridge that will do it?

This may sound mean spirited, but I plan on raising rare birds and want to sell the excess to people that want to eat them, not hatch them.

 

[DeannaMari]

There really isn't a way to make absolutely sure, I mean things could always happen, if you have a rooster around hens and he's mating with them. The best way is to collect them, wash them off (it would drive bacteria into the egg, so even if they tried to hatch the eggs probably wouldn't), put them in a very cool fridge for a few days before you sell them. And don't tell anybody about your rare chickens so nobody gets any ideas. That's all I got.

 

[KYBOY]

No rooster........

 

[keesmom]

If people are buying them to eat then it is likely they do not have nor want chickens.

 

[subhanalah]

Don't publicize the chickens you are keeping. I wouldn't want you to lie though and say the eggs are infertile.

 

[BaileyBoy]

if you wash them I've heard that does the trick

 

[subhanalah]

You can do a bleach solution like the factory farms do to sterilize their eggs.

 

[Serenity Sav]

Put the eggs in the fridge ASAP after they are laid. This doesn't make them entirely unviable, but for as long as they are in the fridge, they won't develop. Then as long as the next person also keeps them refrigerated, no problem.
I always worry about that too, lol.

 

[misbhaven]

People who buy eggs usually just want eggs...I was interested one time I took two of my own eggs a week in the fridge they hatched.. I don't know if it was the placement in the fridge etc..keep two pens one with fertile eggs one without so even if they bought a dozen you know that only half are fertile, or sell your unfertile to eat, fertile ones on ebay or here

 

[badflash]

These are Cream Legbars. Hatching eggs are going for $5+ each right now. Being blue they kinda stand out as something special. I would think that anyone knowing how to hatch eggs would want to try. I sure would.