The Great Wal-Mart Organic Eggs Experiment (Pics)

[ClairedeLune]

You guys are quite interesting!

I have Curly-wurlys, popcorn, and who wants chips? C'mon, budge up, budge up.

 

[ke_ben]

Hey, down it front and shush!

 

[shay20]

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[FlashPointFarm]

FOOOOOD FIIIIIGHT!!!!

 

[Holly O]

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Frozen eggs Break .... as they expand inside ...lol DO NOT FREEZE!

 

[nhnanna]

 

[PeepsInc]

I've cracked store bought eggs to fry, and had blood spots in them. I assume they were fertile? & warm @ before the store sold them.

I think they were from Grand Union, or Price Chopper. You would think the cleansing solution would stop development?

 

[QuailKeeper]

i would think that you might have a better chance with free range?

b/c all other production hens are kept in tiny little cells. maybe there would be a roo or two(haha) free-ranging with the hens

 

[dancingbear]

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There is a sticky, at the top on this section, that has pretty good pictures of fertile and infertile eggs. There is much discussion of that topic on that thread.

No, blood spots don't mean the egg is fertile. Blood spots are just that, blood spots. They occur when a capillary breaks in the egg passage before the shell is added. If a hen has a large bleed, you can get an egg that's got an extremely bloody, dark red white. I had that happen once, it's gross. Nothing to do with fertility.

Commercial hatcheries wash and sanitize eggs before incubating, sometimes they fumigate them. They hatch. The cleansing solution isn't a problem, in most cases. There are a few sanitizers that can prevent or reduce hatchability, but I don't think they are in widespread use.

 

[Blackbird]

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I'm not sure if you mean all organic egg production being from the same breed, or any given producer only having one breed. At any rate, no, they aren't all the same. I'm sure there are organic egg producers that only have one breed, but some have more than one. You can tell that because they have both brown eggs and white ones, and some even sell blue and green ones. And, the chicks that folks have hatched from different brand/source organic eggs, have not all been the same.

I'm sure that the folks hatching store eggs are no threat to the breeders, or diversity of chicken breeds.

Thats what I was saying, a specific producer's brand could only have one breed. Unless you've been there, I don't see how you could completely know for sure. And if someone only wanted some laying hens, it wouldn't really matter. I'm just saying, I hope people do not buy eggs from certain producers when you can spend a little more on people who care about their birds and eggs. Just because a brand may say 'organic' does not still mean that the birds are in cages. That said, I don't sell hatching eggs.