I what my eggs to de non-fertile when I sell them.

[ginbart]

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This is your answer clean them , then with a paper towel wipe them with veg oil or olive oil.
Coat them lightly let set over night then wipe again to remove oil . The oil will clog the pores making them unhatchable.
This is what the fish and game is doing to the geese to control there hatching in Arkansas.

Thank you for that. I'll try it tonight and see if it changes the tast of the egg after I eat it. Maybe I won't need to greese the pan.

 

[JoAnn_WI_4-H_Mom]

So cool, did not know this oiling thing would work on eggs!

 

[Subgauge]

Don't sell them.

Once I buy them they are mine to do what I please wether or not you agree to it. If I want to hatch them and say they are from your line that is too bad.

Like the carnie once said "You buy your tickey to take your chances".

Oh and by no means am I being evil or have malicious intent. It is just that you seem to want the best of both worlds with out any consiquences.

 

[They Call Me Pete]

It's simple DON'T SEll them. 5 pages and nobody figured it out

or someone asks if fertile just say NO. Unless they know what they are looking for it's a mute point

Oh schmit some did figure it out. See above post

 

[Katy]

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So you think it's ethical to knowingly buy cheaper eating eggs from someone who you know also sells hatching eggs with the intent to hatch them? If you do, your ethics are different than mine. People like that are the reason I feed most all of my extra eggs back to the hens or the barn cats.

 

[Rafter 7 Paint Horses]

Well, I guess I am from another world.
Why would you charge a different price for the same egg depending on how it was going to be used????

The only time I think this would be rational, would be because of the increased financial burden placed on the breeder of difficult to hatch & raise breeds.

Marans ( for example) are not any more costly than any other chicken to breed & raise, so their eggs should not be any higher priced than any other breed of chicken egg.

I may get slammed for my way of thinking, but this just sounds greedy to me.
If you are interested in preserving certain breeds, then, spread them around, educate people on the standard of the breed and be known for sharing rather than hoarding.

If you are not interested, then feed the eggs back to the chickens, so nobody can ever hatch one of your eggs without your explicit permission.

Not trying to sound mean, but I won't pay those high prices for hatching eggs. They aren't worth it to me. It is after-all, just an egg, with no guarantee of ever hatching.
If I want a breed, I will find someone with reasonable priced eggs or buy some chicks. The chicks usually are reasonably priced...go figure!

Jean

 

[Katy]

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I have spent a great deal of time and money aquiring the breeds that I have and raise. If someone wants to hatch eggs from my birds they can either pay the price for hatching eggs or go without. I give eating eggs to all my children's families and sell eating eggs to a few friends who have no interest in putting the time and effort into having their own chickens, but like the fresh eggs. There is nothing greedy about selling hatching eggs.....I'm lucky if I pay the feed bill for the year with the eggs that I sell. I am not in it to get rich, I have my birds because I enjoy them.

 

[Katy]

Rafter 7...A quick question for you that just popped into my head. Do you expect to get more money for your paints and quarter horses than you would for a run of the mill horse going thru the sale barn? I would think you probably do. How is that any different than selling a higher quality chicken compared to a hatchery bird?

 

[randomchick]

What ever you do to the eggs before you sell them, are you at least going to do the decent thing of telling the person who buys them? I would be livid mad if someone coated my eggs with oil or put them in a 120 degree oven before selling them to me and didn't tell me. And if the person gets sick, like an allergy to the oil or something, you would feel pretty bad for not telling them.

 

[ginbart]

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First of all I didn't say I would sell the eggs that way. I think I said, " quote, I'll try it tonight and see if it changes the tast of the egg after I eat it. Maybe I won't need to greese the pan. quote