Rooster Dilemma

[Achickenwrangler#1]

wow, you have a dilema there, I suppose if you want to keep your wife and kids happy you can get rid of the roosters, however, you can tell them it's more natural to have the roosters since it is a social order and with no rooster one or more of the hens will change teams and well,
also it is true that the final step in making a chick needs a broody hen to warm the egg otherwise the cells won't divide and there is no embryo. Once in the fridge it's done - no chance at life...so unless the hens decide to incubate (tell them it must not have been fertile or the hens would be sitting on them) so you could just lie lie lie to your family. I guess they are from the city? If they only knew....

 

[JodyJo]

the above poster is right..fertile or not, if the hen is not broody and sits on them, there never was going to be a chick...unless you gather all your eggs, fertile or not and incubate them, you would never, ever know they are fertile! The roosters are invaluable if you ask me...love mine, they do a great job taking care of my girls. Good luck, I hope your wife and kids can adjust and educate themselves enough to know...without heat, no chick...they would just rot in the nest if left.

 

[RMBGKY]

I was just making a point that more people than we think would not "knowing" eat fertilized eggs. You can explain to them until you are blue in the face the benefits. Most of us are not as rational as we would like to think. I am quite sure Jews and Muslims would eat meatloaf that you incorporated ground pork and love it (pork fat rules), but they wouldn't knowingly do it. Or what about all the hoopla by vegetarians and others over McDonald's using beef fat in their cooking oil. For us sane people this all seems irrational.

 

[JodyJo]

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here, here....I still say good luck to you!

 

[RMBGKY]

Achickenwrangler#1 :

wow, you have a dilema there, I suppose if you want to keep your wife and kids happy you can get rid of the roosters, however, you can tell them it's more natural to have the roosters since it is a social order and with no rooster one or more of the hens will change teams and well,
also it is true that the final step in making a chick needs a broody hen to warm the egg otherwise the cells won't divide and there is no embryo. Once in the fridge it's done - no chance at life...so unless the hens decide to incubate (tell them it must not have been fertile or the hens would be sitting on them) so you could just lie lie lie to your family. I guess they are from the city? If they only knew....

Lie to my wife? Heaven forbid! ​

 

[discoveregg]

RMBGKY I agree with you. If I had the choice to buy fertilized eggs vs non I'd take rooster free eggs any day. It's not because of lack of knowlege, or any rational reason whatsoever. It's just the **thought** of eating a potential chick that gets me. Having said that, I do eat my eggs and have a couple of roos. I just try not to think about it, and quite frankly the eggs are so good that I really do forget about t while chowing down on a yummy breakfast. I would NOT encourage you to mislead your family....either they will eat them or they won't. I'll bet a food pantry would gratefully take them off your hands

 

[RMBGKY]

discoveregg I have the same feeling. It doesn't pay to think too much about what we eat.

 

[Achickenwrangler#1]

Well, you did say any ideas are welcome...

Yes, it's weird where picky eaters get ideas, I am not picky, for instance, I don't understand why someone wouldn't eat squirrel because it is closely realated to rat, I bet if rat tasted that good there would be none left in new york city...

 

[RMBGKY]

Many people will eat dove, but few will eat pigeons. To me they taste almost identical.

 

[jbs]

I attended a very liberal university 20 some years ago, and there were a number of hippie vegetarians who actually sought out fertilized eggs because they thought that the eggs were more nutritious. I've been a vegetarian myself for many years (this may change if/when we need to cull chickens from our flock) and don't care either way. Unless one is a vegan, I don't quite understand the squeamishness about eating a fertilized egg. If you think too much about it, eating any egg is kind of gross.