My dumb question.....

[Nonny]

I was wondering this too, although I haven't a roo (and won't be getting one because we're not allowed here in suburbia).

This puzzled me though:

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I thought pullets were just chickens under a year old?

 

[stilldeb]

Maybe this rumor got started by Tyson - (they are by us so I suspect them of everything! lol) - none of their poor battery hens even know what a rooster looks like. "Nooooooooo...don't eat those nasty farm-fresh fertilized eggs! Eat our eggs." Just a thought.

All those old fashioned movies (like the Wizard of Oz - ever notice how many CHICKENS are in that movie!?) where all those chickens/roosters are just running around the barnyard like they were having a good time, portraying life down on the farm? - fertilized eggs.

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[AinaWGSD]

I met a person once who thought it would be horrible to eat fertilized eggs because you would be essentially aborting the chick that would form if the egg were to hatch. Never mind the fact that the embryo would never develop if a hen didn't set the eggs (or you put them in an incubator) and my hens show no interest in setting on their own eggs. But, barring some strong misguided moral conviction like that, there isn't any reason why you can't eat fertilized eggs. They taste the same and last just as long as unfertilized eggs. The only difference is that given the right conditions, they will develop and hatch into chicks instead of rotting and exploding like unfertilized eggs.

 

[southerndesert]

All of our eggs are fertilized and been eating them forever

 

[Azriel]

Yes, you can eat fertilized eggs. I have a lady who only wants fertilized eggs. Her daughter is allergic to eggs, but once fertilized it changes the genitic makeup of the egg to that of chicken, and her daughter can eat them. I don't know for sure that this is true, ust what the lady told me, and she buys 6 doz a month.

 

[gritsar]

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I thought pullets were just chickens under a year old?

A pullet is a female chicken under the age of one. A cockerel is a male chicken under the age of one.

 

[JodyJo]

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EAT EM'

What if, the eggs were in the wild, laid and ignored, they are fertilized, but the hen isn't broody and doesn't sit on them...they spoil...no contest...eat the eggs!

 

[gritsar]

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Actually Tyson has some chicken houses - the ones they get their fertlized eggs from to make more chickens - that do have roosters strutting their stuff up and down the aisles. Never seen it myself but my commercial chicken farmer neighbor tells me that the roosters have a non-stop smile on their beaks.

 

[NanaLantana]

Of course eat the fertile eggs. Just don't take them from under a broody hen after a week - you wouldn't like what you crack into the frypan