Is there a way to keep your Rooster from fertilizing eggs?

[amsunshine]

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It is amazing what people don't know, a real shame. Give me the real life on the farm any day! I am marrying a farmer and I cannot WAIT!! He keeps the eggs picked up each and every day and I know some of them we have had have been fertile and so what?? It's a little dot, nothing more.

I saw one of the cable food programs where this guy goes to different countries and eats whatever they have there. He was in Asia somewhere and ate a dish that had some noodles and veggies and a BULLFROG on its back in the bowl, head and legs and all. They had given him the fresh beating heart to eat before he got the dish. Now THAT is GROSS.

 

[FriesianGroupie#1]

Thanks for this Topic!! I have never had chickens before, and the thought of eating a 'baby chick' was concerning me!! I have two Roosters and two hens, all bros and sisters.

I understand that unfertilized/fertilized eggs all taste the same, but what should i do to the eggies to insure that no babies try to develop? I would pick them up everyday out from the hens, but should i put them in the fridge? My hubby and I (and our neighbors lol) would eat them rather quickly, seeing as we only have two girls and the eggs are supposed to be medium eggs. (all my chickens are 75% arucarana / 25% easter egger)

When should I start looking for my girls to lay eggs? they are 12 weeks today. the boys started their crowing lessons at 10 weeks old, should i expect my girls to lay early? I was told by a Tractor Supply employee (we all know that sometimes that info isnt good!) that roos crow at 15 weeks and hens start laying at 20 to 24 weeks, is that even close? I am Positive on their b-day, as a friend of mine gave them to me the day after they hatched.

Thanks guys!!

Shereena

 

[grendel]

Caponize it

 

[FriesianGroupie#1]

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I'm sorry, what does that mean? Im super new to chickens and am still trying to understand some of the new chicken terms!
Thanks
Shereena

 

[turtlebird]

Caponizing = rooster sterilization

I believe fertile eggs need to be incubated (hen's temp....is that around 105?) for a bit before they start to develop. If you collect your eggs everyday, you should be fine.

 

[littlethorn]

FriesianGroupie#1 :

Thanks for this Topic!! I have never had chickens before, and the thought of eating a 'baby chick' was concerning me!! I have two Roosters and two hens, all bros and sisters.

I understand that unfertilized/fertilized eggs all taste the same, but what should i do to the eggies to insure that no babies try to develop? I would pick them up everyday out from the hens, but should i put them in the fridge? My hubby and I (and our neighbors lol) would eat them rather quickly, seeing as we only have two girls and the eggs are supposed to be medium eggs. (all my chickens are 75% arucarana / 25% easter egger)

Fertilized eggs have to be incubated under a hen or in an incubator in order to develop into chicks. If you are collecting them every day, then they are not going to turn into chicks.

 

[cpegram]

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means the same as neutering it...

 

[FriesianGroupie#1]

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So if I put them in the fridge after i collect them from my girls, they should be ok to eat?
When should I start looking for signs of egg laying? they are 12 weeks today.

Thanks!
Shereena

 

[FriesianGroupie#1]

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means the same as neutering it...

How in the world would you do that??LOL
We thought about giving the two boys away, but i love them too much!! LOL

Shereena

 

[gryeyes]

Your eggs could sit on your kitchen counter, unrefrigerated, for a month and there wouldn't be any embryos developing from fertilized eggs. They have to be INCUBATED at 99.5 to 100.5 degrees, 24 hours a day for at least 5 days before there would be ANY development, and then it would be just some veins starting. Chicken eggs take 21 days from start of incubation - NOT the day they are laid - to hatch. You could set your fertilized eggs on the counter, and at about 10 days, start to incubate them - again, at at least 99.5 degrees - and they would still take 21 days from the day INCUBATION started, to make chicks.

If you gather your fertilized eggs daily or every other day, even, there will never be any chicks developing in any of them.

As others have said, there's no difference in taste or appearance of fertilized eggs versus unfertilized eggs. No difference in nutrional content, either.