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

[JoAnn_WI_4-H_Mom]

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I actually tell my egg customers to do this

"because our chickens get lots of exercise and there may be a blood spot occassionally because of it. You do not want a blood spot in the fry pan, do you?"

It is cool here and I check all the nest spots pretty dilligently. I would hate to sell someone a half-developed egg.

 

[gritsar]

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[neferset]

My mother recently informed me that she wouldn't eat fertilized eggs. I was a little surprised but she never really stated the reason. I wonder if she feels she is killing baby chicks? Until this year and I got my incubators, our eggs would only hatch if a hen wanted to set them, so I never felt like I was killing anything. It wasn't going to be anyway. Now, well...not even I could set them all and if I did, I'd have to buy eggs for my peanut butter cookies.

 

[smores.eragon.willymom]

when we had a rooster my brother refused to eat the fertilized eggs. my husband grew up on a farm with chickens and made fun of him.

I think it's totally fine. I never had a problem with it.

 

[Ghostchick]

My husband has a bit of an issue with it, but he still eats them. He said he doesn't want to crack one open and see a beating heart! Well, me neither, but these are the best eggs I've had, especially over easy!

 

[spartacus_63]

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I have never heard this, nor have I ever heard of a "kosher Jew". Chickens and Eggs are both clean food products. Not only chicken eggs, but quail, duck, goose, and even sea turtle. Imagine trying to find an un fertile sea turtle egg.

 

[TigerLilly]

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It used to be if you wanted to know if your were pregnant they'd ask if the rabbit died.

Now, if a rabbit wants to know if it's pregnant, they'd say, "The snake wasn't hungry"

My ball pythons may have a new career ahead of them!

 

[TigerLilly]

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I wonder if they're supposed to be good for the complexion...

 

[BlacksheepCardigans]

Fertile eggs are kosher and always have been. However, an egg with blood in it where the blood might be from a developing embryo is not. In the days before you could buy unfertilized eggs, Jews who kept kosher had to carefully inspect each egg on opening it, and eggs with meat spots had to be discarded. As long as you didn't see a spot, you were fine. Nowadays I believe most rabbis would say that any unfertilized egg is kosher, even if there's a meat spot, because there's no way the meat spot could be a chick. Fertilized eggs were/are/will be kosher as long as they don't have any meat spot, visible blood, or anything that might be blood.

I don't know all the kosher rules, but that one I do - years at seminary will do that to you.

 

[dsqard]

I have to agree with Mahonri, it is probably mosty a psychological reason some people won't eat fertilized eggs. When we got our rooster my DH was worried about eating fertilized eggs. He asked me if we would be eating eggs that were fertilized. I explained to him that of course we would be. He was one who worried about opening an egg and finding a partially developed chick in it. I explained to him that as long as we collect every day and don't incubate the eggs he wouldn't have to worry about it. I showed him Speckledhen's great pictures of fertilized eggs and once he saw the difference, he was fine with it. I understand that not all people can get over that aversion of eating them, but he loves our eggs!