OUR FIRST EGG!

[lescostes]

We have had our kids for exactly 1 week and this morning I went out to the coop and there in one of the nesting boxes was an egg. I was so excited! I'm not sure what hen layed, so picked up both of them and hugged them. Is that what I'm to do, hug them? Here is a picture, fresh and dirty from the box. We are eating in this morning!

 

[Dawn419]

Congrat's on your first egg!!!

Dawn

 

[lescostes]

so...we couldn't eat our first egg because it was fertilized...we noticed a bulls-eye in the yolk. BUMMER.... wondering how many eggs are fertilized and how many not...or does it just vary?

 

[sunnydee]

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huh?? Why couldn't you eat a fertilized egg?

 

[Splash_Guard]

Blood spots are harmless, fertilized eggs taste the same as unfertilized. Eat them.

 

[Southernbelle]

We eat our fertilized eggs. I have a few roos and 20+ hens, so all our eggs are fertilized all the time. A baby chick won't develop unless it's incubated, so it's fine to eat them.

 

[LuvinMyPeeps]

Whoo hooo for you!!!! Sure okay to hug them, I do it every day when she lays for me (I'm not sure if that's an incentive for her though LOL)...she gives me a 'gotta...get...away' look.

Whooot!!! Congratulations on your first egg!!!!!

 

[FLOWERPOT]

There really is no difference in the taste or texture in fertile eggs.
Once it is cooked, you would never know!!
Some of mine are and some are not, I dont even look anymore!
EAT those eggs, They are so much better than store-bought!