Is this a creepy question??

[Imp]

Don't you feel disgusted to know that you are eating a little baby???

Um, No.

It's not a little baby till it developes.

Imp- Eats veal too.

 

[the simple life]

Its definitely not an issue. Its not a baby, it would have to be incubated by you or a broody hen to develop into a baby.
Its a cell at this point.
I would not doubt that you have not already ate fertile eggs when you have purchased them.
I have heard of several members of this forum who have taken store bought eggs and incubated them and had them hatch.

Sooo....ya never know

 

[AHappychick]

because a hen only lays 1 egg a day the egg if fertilized will stay in a sort-of suspended animation. This way the hen can lay enough to make it worth setting and hatching them. So the egg stays just an egg as the days go by and she lays more.

Lets say 10 eggs is the magic number for this particular hen. On the day she lays her 10th egg (this could take 2 weeks to lay them all) she then decides to sit on them. Once she has been on them for about 12-24 hours and the eggs have reached 100 degrees and have stayed there, then and only then will the cells begin dividing and an embryo start. This way all of the eggs are on the same schedule and all hatch with in 48 hours of each other. If they did not she would either have to leave the nest to feed the first few to survive or the first would starve as she continued to wait for the later eggs to hatch.

I hope this makes sense. It is natures way of taking care of reproduction and having a brood of chicks leaves the best chance of some surviving and passing down the genes.

Soooooo a fertile egg is really no different than a non fertile one, except given the right temperature for an extended period of time will cause the fertile egg to develop.

Now comes the issue of having silkies for egg eating, they are great pets and great broody mommas but layers they are not. Maybe 100-120 eggs a year and they are very small.

I would try to convince your parents to get a pair of hens that are large fowl and regular layers, or it may take weeks for one of them to be able to make an omelette.

 

[Sillystunt]

Quote:
SAY WHAT? no little baby is developing yet!

 

[faykokoWV]

your either eating a baby chicken or your eating a chickens period, either way, if you thing about it too much its gross.

 

[silkiechick05]

the simple life:
I have heard of several members of this forum who have taken store bought eggs and incubated them and had them hatch

oh my gosh!

that is so funny!!!

yes, i don't expect the silkies to lay many eggs.
but that is where "oh, we need to get more in order to compensate" comes in

 

[Rillion]

Quote:
Good point. If I think about the origins of milk too much I don't exactly want to consume that, either.

Besides, if it's okay to eat chickens why shouldn't it be okay to eat a chicken embryo?

 

[the simple life]

Quote:
Thats a new one. I didn't know chickens got their period every day.
What you are actually eating if you want to get down to it is the food that would supply a developing chicken if the egg was in fact fertilized and you were to let it hatch.
All of that is absorbed by the chicken during development.
If you analize anything too much there isn't a whole lot you would eat.

 

[7cutechix]

Exactly why I have NO roos and am vegetarian!!!

 

[silkypie]

My DH's grandmother swears that fertile eggs taste better than non-fertile eggs.

I think they taste all the same!