I don't think I'll be eating eggs any more!!

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www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-52838747

I'm already vegetarian so not eating eggs would be something I could do easily.

Was just discussing this with DH! Never knew you could be sold fertilised eggs and wouldn't be able to tell! Feeling a bit (not envy) about them now.

I cracked an egg I got from
Asda recently and it had a tiny chick
In it

I thought in that article they said the problem is with ducks, which are notoriously difficult to sex, so difficult to keep apart.

Not the same with chickens.

When I was a child late in the 50s/ early 60s finding a chick (or a big blob of blood) in an egg wasn't that uncommon.

I didn't look at the link but if this is about the duck egg that hatched it's probably because ducks lay their eggs all over the place and are often kept in mixed groups. It's quite hard to sex white ducks that don't have distinctive male/female feathers.

I can't get worked up about this, I get my eggs from a farm where they have heaps of chickens and most will be fertilised eggs as they have cockerels

We get our eggs from a farm too. Hmm.

I’m vegetarian but I only eat the eggs from my friend’s chickens, they are at the yard where I keep my horse. They are most probably all fertilised as the chickens are free range and every group of hens has a cockerel, but my friend can’t keep them all, she lets the broody hens hatch eggs but if they don’t want to sit on them then they are eating eggs. I have never seen a chick inside them but that’s probably because they are really fresh, I read somewhere that supermarket eggs are on average 30 days old when on the shelves.

It's perfectly safe to eat fertilised eggs. If they are fairly new you'd probably never know.

Are you serious? How can adults not know that eggs are often fertilised? I am literally stunned. And now some of you are going to stop eating them? Why?

People who are so divorced from the reality of what eggs actually are shouldn't be allowed to eat eggs.

They should be restricted to food derived from petrochemicals. That should save all the ewwing and sick noises.

FFS.

I ate a fertilised egg on Friday. I'm still alive

I’m considering stopping because within 6 hours I get horrendous cramps and diarrhoea. I really don’t want to though as I love egg on toast.

• misses point of thread.

I love eggs but don't understand why vegetarians deem them ok?

Supermarket eggs aren’t weeks old!! You can tell because they are hard to peel when boiled shortly after purchase. Why would producers have acres of warehouse keeping eggs in.......it’s not like 28 day aged beef etc.

Are you stopping all eggs or just duck eggs?

@fuckinghellthisshit

Are you serious? How can adults not know that eggs are often fertilised? I am literally stunned. And now some of you are going to stop eating them? Why?

This^ Although I must admit, I love threads like this. I just imagine posters are like those characters from Catherine Tate, “the dirty bastards...”

Fertilisation does happen, but it doesn't bother me as it's still a clump of cells at that point, just a different clump of cells to an unfertilised egg 🤷🏻‍♀️. Usually it shows up as a white spot in the yolk. Sometimes eggs have blood spots or meat spots in them that are picked up from the hen, it doesn't mean it's developing into a chick.
Intensively farmed eggs are less likely fertilised but the welfare of the hens is much worse!

Now I want to go and get an incubator and some eggs from Waitrose. Wonder if Tesco eggs would do. Shame to waste the duck eggs if they don't hatch though.

when i was veggie i stopped eatting eggs when i found out what happened to the male chicks, it was enough to turn me over to vegan straight away and have been for a couple of years now.

Isn't that general knowledge?

It was one reason dm always cracked an egg into a mug before adding it to cake mixture as occasionally they'd gone further than normal and were bloody.

I was told by a farmer that hens lay better when there's a cock around, so free-range eggs are quite likely to be fertilised as most will have a cock in the flock.

I get not eating eggs as a vegetarian.

But i eat lamb [shrugs]

🤢 good god nearly just brought up my breakfast 🍳

It is not a problem. In the 1960s I remember we sometimes could see that in an egg and it was exciting - a plus point.

I am not a vegan so I have no problems with this kind of thing. In fact eggs like this are probably more natural and you get better eggs.

I don't understand the shock here. Chickens generally live on farms with cockerels - surely it's obvious then that some of the eggs will be fertilised? It's just common sense, isn't it?

Isn't it the reason why you should never crack and egg straight into the mixture? I was always brought up to crack it into a bowl or something first.