If a egg if unfertilized and incubated can you give it to livestock?

[phantomml]

If I candle an egg and there it no vien and cracking it open reveals it wasn't fertilized, can you cook the egg and give it to your geese and ducks?

 

[saddina]

I wouldn't risk it.

 

[yinepu]

how long was it incubated?

if just for a day or two you could (no different than it sitting out on my counter here in texas during a heat wave).. if it's been more than a few days i would toss it.. the egg would have started to degrade and bacteria would have started growing..

i know some people will still throw them out raw to their pigs... but i have found older eggs tend to give my dogs gas (I don't have pigs).. and trust me.. it's no fun when you have 8 dogs with gas at the same time!

 

[HenCrazyMom]

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i know some people will still throw them out raw to their pigs... but i have found older eggs tend to give my dogs gas (I don't have pigs).. and trust me.. it's no fun when you have 8 dogs with gas at the same time!

The thought of 8 dogs with gas at the same time makes me laugh!

 

[Ridgerunner]

Whether the egg was fertilized or not has nothing to do with bacteria growing in it. The bloom and egg shell are the same on all of them and work to keep bacteria out. Even if an egg is fertilized and is developing, it can still be contaminated with bacteria.

I'd do the sniff test. If it smells OK, it is probably OK. If it has started to smell, I'd toss it.

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

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[yinepu]

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i know some people will still throw them out raw to their pigs... but i have found older eggs tend to give my dogs gas (I don't have pigs).. and trust me.. it's no fun when you have 8 dogs with gas at the same time!

The thought of 8 dogs with gas at the same time makes me laugh!

oh.. you wouldn't be laughing if you had been there.. trust me!

 

[yinepu]

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Just to clarify... I said:
"how long was it incubated?

if just for a day or two you could (no different than it sitting out on my counter here in texas during a heat wave).. if it's been more than a few days i would toss it.. the egg would have started to degrade and bacteria would have started growing.. "

..so I never mentioned fertilization being a factor one way or the other.. i was referring to HEAT from incubation

 

[Ridgerunner]

Quote:
Just to clarify... I said:
"how long was it incubated?

if just for a day or two you could (no different than it sitting out on my counter here in texas during a heat wave).. if it's been more than a few days i would toss it.. the egg would have started to degrade and bacteria would have started growing.. "

..so I never mentioned fertilization being a factor one way or the other.. i was referring to HEAT from incubation

And I was referring to bacteria being present. If bacteria is not present, the egg will not go bad. If bacteria is present, the egg will go bad a lot quicker at incubation temperatures tha it would in a refrigerator or on a counter in an air conditioned house, fertile or not. I'm not arguing that.

The OP's original question mentioned it being fertilized. That is what I was responding to.

 

[Gypsy07]

My dogs tend to be old fartbags anyway, so I'll happily feed them undeveloped eggs that have been incubating for as long as two weeks. As long as when I crack them open they just smell like warm raw eggs. If they ever smelled of anything else I wouldn't risk it. Occasionally my dogs turn them down, and I guess with their uber-sensitive schnozzles, those times maybe they can smell something bad that I can't...