The Great Wal-Mart Organic Eggs Experiment (Pics)

[vkp23]

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Vegitarian=no meat but foods that come from animals are ok like eggs and milk.
Vegan=NOTHING from animals. No milk products eggs meat or other wise.
So vegans wouldn't be eating eggs anyway. Vegitarians IDK it would depend on why they eat that way I guess. I had a friend who didn't eat red meat (Beef, pork, lamb that kind of stuff) but she would eat chicken fish and eggs. She just didn't like the taste of red meat.

 

[wildorchid053]

ok this is the strangest thing i have ever heard so i went into the kitchen and started cracking eggs..decided i could make browinies or cake.. and son of a gun there was a bullseye on one... now i don't want to eat the cake lol.. poor baby.. j/k but i really was surprised lol

 

[Rootball]

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what brand were the eggs, and where did you buy them?

 

[dancingbear]

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It's not a baby chicken. It's just a fertilized egg. You ate them before when you didn't know, what's the diff now? Unless you intended to incubate that egg, it was never, ever, going to be a chick anyway.

You can make yourself feel bad, or you can be realistic and see that a good percentage of those fertile grocery eggs wouldn't hatch anyway, due to temps being low enough to destroy the germ cells, or because it's been too long since it was laid. getting store eggs to hatch is cool, but it's far from being a given that they would all develop. Most, never would.

If not used, that egg would have just eventually rotted. That would be wasting perfectly good food, and silly. Better to just enjoy your cake! Eat an extra piece for me.

 

[Boondachs]

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It's not a baby chicken. It's just a fertilized egg. You ate them before when you didn't know, what's the diff now? Unless you intended to incubate that egg, it was never, ever, going to be a chick anyway. It would have just eventually rotted. Is that better than eating it?

j/k = just kidding

"d" added caause I can't type and never use spellchecker

 

[dancingbear]

Oops, I had no idea what j/k was. Sorry. I have seen many posts from people who really do get all weird about eating a fertile egg.

Too many acronyms!

 

[Holly O]

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Shine a bright light up through the egg to see the insides. their is a stick thread on it in incubating and hatching eggs.

 

[dancingbear]

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No, just a low cost way for people who don't have any strong need or preference for special or pure breeds to obtain some hatching eggs without incurring a lot of expense.

As for "breeders of these breeds", they are mostly large corporation hatcheries that breed high production layers for commercial egg production. The commercial egg producers won't be getting eggs at Wal-mart, Trader Joe's, or any other store on the chance that some may hatch.

Most people who just want some high production layers will still order chicks from hatcheries, too.

There are plenty of folks that want or need pure bred birds, those breeders are in no danger of going under from the people who just want "some chickens".

I have a breeding project in the works, and want specific breeds for it. So I won't be hatching out these random breed production layers, they won't suit my purposes.
I've spent $98.00 on shipped eggs, and have a total of 8 chickens to show for it. $12.25 per bird. Before the cost of raising them. That's a little steep if you don't need specific breeds. Heck, that's steep even if you do need specific breeds.

But if somebody just wants to hatch a few for the kids, or a school project, or they just want a few hens for eggs, why on earth should they spend a lot of money for expensive shipped eggs, that may not even hatch? If they can buy a few dozen at the store, find out which ones have a chance to hatch, and eat the rest for breakfast, why the heck not?

 

[Holly O]

Testing the incubators as they have been having a hard time, this is an inexpensive alternative.

Hey correct me if I'm wrong...
The egg yolk is like our placenta that nourishes the baby.
The egg white is the amniotic fluid.

Their is no actual chick in a non fertile egg.

 

[backdoorchicken]