Chicken egg question
if you have raised chickens or just know about chickens, did you eat fertile eggs or non fertile?
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Both. Don 0 -
both, boil, scrambled, omlett, deviled, however i can get them. 0 -
unless you don't have a rooster your gonna be hard pressed not to find a fertile one, you just want to collect them everyday, and when in doubt throw it out
in 16 hours it will develope an eye
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All the eggs we have are fertile. Almost impossible not to be when you have roosters. 0 -
Eat 'em all! If you are good about collecting them, most you will notice is a little bitty tiny "blood" spot beside the yolk. No problem. If you wanna get fancy, give them a few days under a sitting hen and make your own balut! [xx(] 0 -
quote:Originally posted by 1911a1fan
unless you don't have a rooster your gonna be hard pressed not to find a fertile one, you just want to collect them everyday, and when in doubt throw it out
in 16 hours it will develope an eye
They are dormant until they reach a certain temp and are held there. I forget the temp and amount of time. So if you take a fertile one out of the box right after it is laid and put it in the fridge it will not get the red eye.
A little rooster snot won't hurt ya anyway.0 -
Thanks for all the answers. Good info. 0 -
Some people think the Chalaza (#4 & #13 on the picture) is rooster sperm. It isn't. It is the part of the egg which keeps the yoke centered in the egg. The Germinal disk (#9 on the picture) shows fertilization. All eggs, fertilized or not have the Chalaza. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by JamesRK
Some people think the Chalaza (#4 & #13 on the picture) is rooster sperm. It isn't. It is the part of the egg which keeps the yoke centered in the egg. The Germinal disk (#9 on the picture) shows fertilization. All eggs, fertilized or not have the Chalaza.
I just lurnt sumethin! [:D][:D]0 -
That's what I'm here for. [:D] [:D] [:D] 0 -
Duck and Turkey eggs are WAYYyyyyy better. Not to mention GOOSE-EGGS!!! MAN-O-MAN, are they ever good !!!![:p] 0 -
I saved both the pictures in my "Not Quite Porn" file.
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quote:Not to mention GOOSE-EGGS!!! MAN-O-MAN, are they ever good !!!!
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quote:Originally posted by iluvguns
Eat 'em all! If you are good about collecting them, most you will notice is a little bitty tiny "blood" spot beside the yolk. No problem. If you wanna get fancy, give them a few days under a sitting hen and make your own balut! [xx(]
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quote:Originally posted by fishkiller41
Duck and Turkey eggs are WAYYyyyyy better. Not to mention GOOSE-EGGS!!! MAN-O-MAN, are they ever good !!!![:p]
You have a point there. Don't forget Guinnea (spelling) Hen eggs. My mom does all her baking with them.0 -
both, Thomas 0 -
We have 21 hens that give us about 18 fresh brown eggs every day. We also have two roosters, and I'm sure the eggs are all fertile. We collect them daily, so there has never been a problem, and the taste of the fresh eggs can't be beat.
I do have one hen that is broody, and will not stop sitting on her eggs. I placed three golf balls under her, and she still kept laying eggs with them. I allowed her to have six of her own eggs, and they should hatch around the 12th or 16th of December. I just hope the golf balls don't hatch first.[:D]
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Good idea about the golf balls.
I imagine they work as well as the ceramic eggs that they sell at the feed store?0 -
MVP,
My flock is young, and a young hen will almost always pick at the first few eggs when they start laying. This of course causes them to break. By placing golf balls in the hen house the birds learn that these things are hard, and they stop picking at them. It also worked to help show them that the nest boxes were where I wanted them to lay their eggs. I have one hen who always lays her egg on top of a nest box. She will not go inside a nest box to save her life. This has caused other birds to kick her egg around, and several have fallen and broke.
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I've ate both, I used to raise chicken back on the farm.
No real difference in taste betwean them.0
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