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    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?

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    Not too sure, but if there's a cockerel then there might be fertilised eggs
    My girls found their way into my heart and now they nest there

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    • #3
      You can still make a fortune on eBay selling 'hatching eggs'!
      My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
      to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

      Diversify & prosper


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      • #4
        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
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        "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

        Location....Normandy France

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        • #5
          putting them in the fridge for a couple of days will kill off the fertilized bits

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          • #6
            YUKKKKK! Cockerals for the pot I think

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            • #7
              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

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              • #8
                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

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                • #9
                  My niece has 2 cockerels with her hens and sells all the eggs. She has regular customers so they must all be happy.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by lynda66 View Post
                    ............................ 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?
                    My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
                    to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

                    Diversify & prosper


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                    • #11
                      He he Snadger. Perhaps eating fertilised eggs is not such a good idea after all!

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                      • #12
                        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.
                        Last edited by Hilary B; 18-02-2009, 08:50 AM.
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                        • #13
                          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.
                          "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

                          Location....Normandy France

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                          • #14
                            Isn't there something about shaking possible fertilized ones too to stop the embryo developing?
                            My girls found their way into my heart and now they nest there

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by MaureenHall View Post
                              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???
                              "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

                              Location....Normandy France

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