is it true?

[minskey]

Hello All,
I'm sure I have read some where that you are not allowed to sell eggs if the hens have a cockeral living with them............ is it true?

If so why?

[MaureenHall]

Not too sure, but if there's a cockerel then there might be fertilised eggs

[Snadger]

You can still make a fortune on eBay selling 'hatching eggs'!

[Nicos]

You've got to be careful with fertile eggs.
I think if you sold them as 'fresh eggs collected daily from hens running with a cockerel'...then peeps can make up there own mind.

I had a 'dead' fertile egg which was a bit of a shock

I'll post it here- but don't enlarge it if you are squeamish folks

[lynda66]

putting them in the fridge for a couple of days will kill off the fertilized bits

[minskey]

YUKKKKK! Cockerals for the pot I think

[minskey]

So that must be why my Gran would always crack & open an egg before she used it however she was going to cook it well, except for boiled

[lynda66]

that only happens if they have been incubated for a while though, normal fertilized eggs look exactly like normal eggs, so as long as they are collected daily there isn't a problem, i grew up on fertilized eggs and i'm still here

[frias]

My niece has 2 cockerels with her hens and sells all the eggs. She has regular customers so they must all be happy.

[Snadger]

............................ i grew up on fertilized eggs and i'm still here, i grew up on fertilised eggs and i'm still here, i grew up on fertilised eggs...........

So they haven't affected you?

[frias]

He he Snadger. Perhaps eating fertilised eggs is not such a good idea after all!

[Hilary B]

Lynda is right about them needing incubation to look any different (Nicos's one looked about 5 days, as far as I can remember from the pictures on the wall in school). No particular sign that there is any nutritional difference either.

[Nicos]

Yup- you're right- I'd guessed about a week and a couple of days for the other 2 in the clutch when Betty went walkabout all day- so I presumed they were dead as it was -12C outside at that time!

It's the only one I've had like that-and I knew it'd been sat on.
Interesting to know about putting them in the fridge though.

[MaureenHall]

Isn't there something about shaking possible fertilized ones too to stop the embryo developing?

[Nicos]

Isn't there something about shaking possible fertilized ones too to stop the embryo developing?

I bet sticking it in the microwave would do the trick too!!!!

...not heard of that though Maureen!I wonder what my farmers wife would suggest???