What you do with those dead eggs from Incubator?

[GoProChickens]

I don't think you should feed them the eggs, or it will promote them eating other eggs that that lay.

 

[Kris5902]

Why didn't you want the raccoons getting them?
They are already dead, I mean, I understand it for a full pet chicken, but for a embryo?

I really can’t say why, aside from the don’t feed the problems reasoning, which isn’t the whole of it. I do know it’s strange, because I am going to be raising meat birds, we have a farm that already produces meat, Beef and Lamb, and we have a class A licensed abattoir that I work in. I brush the cows, feed the cows, hug the cows, and then eat them. It’s some sort of psychological thing for sure...

I think maybe it’s because they are babies, or almost babies. Or because I had so much emotionally invested in my hatch? But I still like to bury even the chickens I don’t work with, rather than just toss the carcass into the woods. It seems disrespectful somehow. We just lost a calf (stillborn I think) and I’m mostly angry with myself for not being there incase I could’ve helped it.

Still, I wouldn’t feed the bad eggs or dead embryos to any of my animals, it’s just not sanitary! Dead things need to be properly handled for consumption, and because we don’t know how long the egg has been dead for, it’s probably not a good idea to feed it to anything.

 

[someusername]

huh......

 

[JerryR708]

What is outside of your window?

Could be a bad neighbor or a package thief.

 

[JerryR708]

Crack'em, inspect'em, toss'em & log'em

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Why didn't you want the raccoons getting them?
They are already dead, I mean, I understand it for a full pet chicken, but for a embryo?

Don't give the raccoons or other critters ideas! They might think there's more to eat where that came from...

 

[JerryR708]

Don't give the raccoons or other critters ideas! They might think there's more to eat where that came from...

Like tossing chum around the boat to attract more fish.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Like tossing chum around the boat to attract more fish.

Exactly! Dump pigs blood into the sea to attract the sharks…

 

[JerryR708]

Exactly! Dump pigs blood into the sea to attract the sharks…

An even better analogy, being sharks are predators.

 

[webbysmeme]

I toss them in the woods. I've also thrown them in the trash or sink (depending on the stage) if I've done an eggtopsy. I don't give them to the chickens because they're truly nasty by the time I pull them.

I haven't found that giving chickens eggs leads to egg eating. I do crack them first, though.

What is a eggtopsy?