Why do people get so worked up about eating a fertilized egg?

[M To The Maxx]

Thanks for the pics Speckledhen.

 

[PortageGirl]

I grew up with a flock with roosters, so to me it's just the way it is. I don't really have a good point of reference as far as the aversion to eating them goes. As has been said, there's no chick just because an egg is fertile, it's got to be incubated.

One thing, you'd really think we'd have had more of these 'close calls' with eggs than we ever have. We've never had any of those, crack an egg and see chick-n-bits... gotta be luck cause I'm not perfect as far as egg gathering and stuff, careful, but not perfect.

 

[lorrir]

My adult daughters won't eat my eggs because they "know" the chickens. Wait til thanskgiving comes and were talking turkey, cause I got 20 of them.

 

[gritsar]

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Might want to stock up on peanut butter and jelly for their sandwichs now.

 

[WriterofWords]

It's funny,, my dad,, farm kid, doesn't want to eat fresh eggs because "How do you the rooster hasn't been there??" What the heck did he eat growing up? So my mom takes the eggs and puts them in the carton in the fridge and he never knows the difference.

 

[Tala]

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That's what I'd do too! lol If you can't tell, why should I?

DH was worried about it at first, and he almost never cracks open the eggs anyway.
Seems that he has gotten over his aversion. He now likes our eggs better than storebought!

 

[aimeeinwv]

Whew! We have 2 Roo's that we are trying to give away. Yep.. .they're edible, but I can't do it. We prefer not to have fertilized eggs, not for any reason other than I am scared to death of finding a chick one day!!! I check the nesting boxes several times a day... just in case! LOL!!!

Also, we don't have to worry about an unwed-hen having a chick to the children!

haha! JK! Actually, my poor 11 year old son had to expain to his whole bus full of kids "why his Rooster was trying to sit on his Hen when the bus pulled up to the drive" "was he beating her up??" He thinks our Roo's are rapists and wants them gone! LOL!!!

 

[19hhbelgian]

Ok... Please explain the whole no sperm in the egg thing so I can explain it to my hubby

He's grossed out about eating fertilized eggs (so I just told him that none of my roos are big enough to mate with our laying girls, and he actually BELIEVED me

He should know better by now

) It doesn't bother me, although if I would ever find a partially developed chick, I would never eat an egg again!

 

[19hhbelgian]

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OMG - that's too much!!!!! I always tell them to stop taking advantage of the girls

 

[Longhaven Hen]

When I was growing up on our family farm, we always cracked our chickens' eggs into a little glass dish "just in case". One day when I was about 11 or 12, I was making cookies and cracked an egg directly into the bowl and there was a partially formed chick in the very early stages of development.

I was a little freaked at first, but I just scooped it out of the bowl and started over; however, to this day I will not eat raw cookie dough or cake batter from our chickens' eggs, and I never forget the little glass dish!