betterthanabox
Senior Cook
I cracked it open and there was a partially developed chicken. I didn't eat eggs for a while after that. I eat eggs and I eat chicken, I don't do the in between stuff.
I cracked it open and there was a partially developed chicken. I didn't eat eggs for a while after that. I eat eggs and I eat chicken, I don't do the in between stuff.
Daizymae said:Where did you get this egg and did you have any reason to believe that it had been sitting around in a really warm place for some time? I really want to get to the bottom of this!
Obviously it was fertilized. Unfertilized eggs would not develop an embryo. No roosters!
I don't think the health benefits outweigh the grossout factor for fertilized eggs. Just makes for happier roosters. And hens.
Daizymae said:Of course the egg was fertile, but that's not enough. It takes 3 weeks of approx. 100 degree temperature to produce a fully developed chick. In this case, the development started, so obviously the egg was in a too-warm place!
I wonder how Betterthanabox came to have this egg and was led to believe it was an ordinary, edible egg.
Ugh all around. I would stop eating eggs but still use them in baking, I think, if this had happened to me.
pacanis said:I'm wondering how the egg happened to be fertilized in the first place.
Umm. First there was a hen, then an interested rooster..... We had to take classes on this in fifth grade.
pacanis said:ahhh, the Amish market... that explains it.
Yes, healthier chickens, but ones allowed to... "mingle".