Rooster+Hen= Gross eggs?

[aprophet]

if you google balut this may be what she is thinking of

it may be a bit graphic for most

 

[Mak]

I have a rooster with my hens and we eat the eggs all the time. Can't really tell the difference unless you look closely for the bulls eye, as others have said. If the hens lay and then leave the nest, the eggs will get too chilled- even in summer- to develop.

 

[redheadmama13]

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Yuck! Thanks for the warning, but then I just have to look. Never knew such a "delicacy" existed - learn something new everyday!

Ditto to the rest of the posters - having a rooster hasn't changed the taste or look of my eggs in the slightest (other than a little bullseye). The benefits of the rooster are great when my flock is free ranging!

 

[hennyannie]

I dont have a rooster at present and my mother in law seems to find eggs that could be fertile all the time. I have explained that the roos are gone and the hens are all I have many times. I guess her eggs are still fertile from the roo last summer.

 

[hennyannie]

Okay saw the balut. Do they cook those chicks before they eat them. That is one "food" I am not trying.

 

[ScissorChick]

The embryo does not start developing until the egg is heated to a certain temp.

So the eggs are exactly like unfertile eggs unless you get them warm.