How to assure eggs WON'T hatch?

[theawesomechick]

I perfectly understand your concern about customers hatching your eating eggs, Legbars are pretty expensive and to a chicken fanatic's eye, their eggs have a very distinct color. If I lived around your area, even if I had my own chickens, I might be really tempted to buy a dozen from you to hatch. Many people on BYC do this. I agree with many other posters and say that you should wash the eggs, but tell your customers that did so and warn them against storing the eggs too long.

edited for spelling

 

[BaileyBoy]

got any idea on these breeds?

 

[badflash]

Cute chicks, but it appears to be off topic.

 

[badflash]

I should leave well enough alone, but I'm missing something. Let me sum up what I think I've read here:

It is evil to do something to a fertile egg to make it infertile and sell it as an eating egg.
Keeping eggs cold or turning them upside down will not make them infertile, even after a week in the fridge.
Heat can be used to sterilize eggs, but it is likely subject to regulation and disclosure.
It is OK to sell hatching eggs for more than eating eggs (not sure why given the sentiment in this thread).
The only way to ethically have infertile eggs to sell is abstinence (keep the rooster away).

Not wanting the chicken police to break down my chicken coop, I think I will keep laying hens separate from the rooster when I don't need hatching eggs.

 

[AmericanMom]

I should leave well enough alone, but I'm missing something. Let me sum up what I think I've read here:

It is evil to do something to a fertile egg to make it infertile and sell it as an eating egg.
Keeping eggs cold or turning them upside down will not make them infertile, even after a week in the fridge.
Heat can be used to sterilize eggs, but it is likely subject to regulation and disclosure.
It is OK to sell hatching eggs for more than eating eggs (not sure why given the sentiment in this thread).
The only way to ethically have infertile eggs to sell is abstinence (keep the rooster away).

Not wanting the chicken police to break down my chicken coop, I think I will keep laying hens separate from the rooster when I don't need hatching eggs.

If your worried about the rush of people who are there to buy your eggs for eating but instead will hatch them and run you out of business this is your best option..

 

[misbhaven]

I should leave well enough alone, but I'm missing something. Let me sum up what I think I've read here:

It is evil to do something to a fertile egg to make it infertile and sell it as an eating egg.
Keeping eggs cold or turning them upside down will not make them infertile, even after a week in the fridge.
Heat can be used to sterilize eggs, but it is likely subject to regulation and disclosure.
It is OK to sell hatching eggs for more than eating eggs (not sure why given the sentiment in this thread).
The only way to ethically have infertile eggs to sell is abstinence (keep the rooster away).

Not wanting the chicken police to break down my chicken coop, I think I will keep laying hens separate from the rooster when I don't need hatching eggs.

I am ordering some true Ameracauna chicks from a breeder ...show quality stock my kids want to be in 4h etc..and the will be shown other places, I am inclined to think their eggs won't leave my property except as hatching eggs or hatched chicks...I will give the eggs to people I know who will just eat them or keep them for our own use. I have EE's for blue eggs.

 

[subhanalah]

Last week I bought same fresh egg for EATING . Decided to throw some in a very cheap homemade incubator to see what happens. Well, got tons of 108 temperature spikes and humidity down below 25%.. But was able to keep it around the right temp about 70% of the time. Candled the egg thinking I probably have to throw at least 1/2 away but found most of them look like this: Now, not count one's chickens before they hatch(finally I can say this and literally mean what I say ) I should have chicks in 2 weeks. :yiipchick :cd

neigh sayers?

 

[hildar]

I am not planning on reading every single post in here, but from what I take here is that you don't want folks that buy your eating eggs to hatch them out??? Then why would you keep a rooster with them?? If I want just plain eating eggs I take the rooster out. If I want fertile hatching eggs the rooster goes back in with them. Just that simple. However once someone buys eggs from me, I couldn't care less what they do with them. They could even throw them at Obama for all I care.

Just saying if you don't want someone hatching them just in case if it should happen maybe a 5% chance of that happening. Why not just keep the eggs yourself, do like I do and pickle some. Rule of thumb is always just sell them as eating eggs no one needs to know, unless if you have EE's. Then you could just use them yourself.

 

[theawesomechick]

I should leave well enough alone, but I'm missing something. Let me sum up what I think I've read here:

It is evil to do something to a fertile egg to make it infertile and sell it as an eating egg.
Keeping eggs cold or turning them upside down will not make them infertile, even after a week in the fridge.
Heat can be used to sterilize eggs, but it is likely subject to regulation and disclosure.
It is OK to sell hatching eggs for more than eating eggs (not sure why given the sentiment in this thread).
The only way to ethically have infertile eggs to sell is abstinence (keep the rooster away).

Not wanting the chicken police to break down my chicken coop, I think I will keep laying hens separate from the rooster when I don't need hatching eggs.

Don't think like that, your original thought is perfectly fine. I don't think it's really necessary to separate the rooster from the hens, the ladies probably like their man

. As I said earlier, I think you should just wash them and tell your customers that you washed them and you'll be fine. My opinion is only worth about two cents though, so do as you see best

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[BaileyBoy]

Hey i know this isn't the right place to post this but i have a really important question and none will answer me.
Hi i have a newborn and she seems to have had an injured foot. i put a bootie on her but she won't walk around or anything and only drinks when i dunk her beak in water. yesterday, i couldn't take it anymore, it looked like it was suffering so i took the booty and spraddle leg bad aid off. she started moving around but not much and still wouldn't eat or drink. She was getting pecked and ran over so now, i put another bootie back on and she is isolated. What should i do? should i cull? it doest really seem too sever i just want

to know how to fix it


this was her yesterday (first 12 hours of her life.

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this is her now, possible a swollen knee?