Stupid question-I want a rooster...but no fertile eggs..ideas?

[lilbirdee]

I hope that this is the correct forum.
I have 15 new chicks. Bought as pullets but I know that the odds are that at least one of them will turn out to be a cockerel.
I have been saying that I don't want any roosters. The number one reason is because I don't want to eat or sell fertile eggs.

But on the other hand, I can live with the crowing & I think that the roosters are beautiful.
So the stupid question of the day is...how do you have a rooster without fertile eggs?
Beyond the obvious of keeping him separated from the girls, which free range. I wouldn't even know how to go about that.
Or am I just wrong about the eating aspect of the fertile eggs?
I'd appreciate any and all suggestions!

 

[AHappychick]

why dont you want to eat fertile eggs they are the same you would never know it

you could make the roo a capon if you dont want him to be able to do the fertilization thing.

 

[silverfilly]

Ours are fertile and there is no difference in taste or anything. I would think but im not sure that he would become very "frustrated" and possibly more aggressive if he could not breed. Hope someone else chimes in

 

[Wynette]

Nothing wrong whatsoever with eating fertile eggs; in fact, there are gourmet stores around here that sell fertile eating eggs - says they're fertile right on the carton!

 

[okiehen]

We eat all the fertile eggs we want cant tell any difference in them over non fertile eggs. I sell all my extra eggs to people to eat and no problems there.

 

[B. Saffles Farms]

Other than keeping him seperate from your hens, I dont think its possible. Eating fertile eggs wont bother you. I will bet you cant even tell any difference.

 

[ranchhand]

We eat fertile and infertile eggs all the time, there's no difference. Either way, if you collect eggs at least once a day and refrigerate them, chances are it's no longer a fertile egg anyway. Some will disagree, but basically, refrigeration stops any potential development. It's not like you'll crack and egg and find something horrifying in there. I know, it used to worry me, too. Until I started raising chickens!

 

[lilbirdee]

So you can't even tell if they are fertile or not?
I just had this idea that there are "extras" floating around.

 

[B. Saffles Farms]

Quote:
Nope, youll never know the difference.

 

[texasgal]

I found this informative ..

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=16008&p=1