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

[RevaVirginia]

A while back there was a thread much like this one. Someone stated they knew someone that "could taste the rooster"...I still get tears in my eyes when I think about that post. I now ask folks that come over to eat if they can..taste the rooster....

 

[Chicken Chat]

I don't have any trouble eating a fertilized egg. Having said that, I did have an incident a couple years back. I went to fry an egg one morning, cracked it and had a pan full of blood. Gross! I felt soooo bad. Apparently, one of my girls had been hiding an egg from me during nest box collections and that one got some heat on it for a few days and started to develop. I couldn't even think about eating another egg for a couple of months, I was so sick about it.

It did teach me a lesson. Since then, if one of the girls is in the nest during egg collection, I pretty much lift her up and check every square inch of that nest to make very sure that all eggs are accounted for.

 

[TennesseeTruly]

Most of the eggs that we eat and the eggs that our customers eat are fertilized. We have a rooster in with our hens. Our customers realize that unless the eggs are incubated there won't be a chick. But we do have a friend who won't eat our eggs after a bad experience with her brother's chickens eggs.

She was cracking eggs into a frying pan and there was a partially incubated chick in the pan. She'll only eat supermarket eggs now. I told her that it's her loss and that her brother should have been more diligent about collecting his eggs!

The reason that we have a rooster with our hens that provide us with eating eggs is that sometimes we incubate the eggs for ourselves and for our neighbors who want EE's or Leghorns.

Laurie

 

[jenjscott]

And then there are those who want the fertilized eggs, think they are better for you.

 

[silkiechick05]

You know, i don't know if this is appropriate or not, but whenever i hear that people don't like to eat fertilized eggs, it reminds me of abortions



I don't know why!

 

[RevaVirginia]

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Careful, Someone will want you to look at some Ink blots...

 

[silkiechick05]

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Careful, Someone will want you to look at some Ink blots...

bahahaha!

don't tell on me!

 

[hen-thusiast]

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If that happened to me, I'd probably never be able to eat an egg again!

 

[M To The Maxx]

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I have a question about that TennesseeTruly. Was there only parts of the chick that formed of was it a really small chick?

 

[RevaVirginia]

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I have a question about that TennesseeTruly. Was there only parts of the chick that formed of was it a really small chick?

google "Balut". These eggs aren't offensive everywhere...