2007-03-23 11:29:08 · 10 answers · asked by jnuconn 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
This generally depends on the environment the egg comes from. Normally, the majority of eggs are unfertilised as they come from battery chicken farms. At these places male and female chickens are kept apart so fertilisation of eggs is uncommon.
Though eggs that come from organic or free range farms may be fertilised if male and female chickens are together. The girl from this article http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=441924&in_page_id=1770
shows how supermarket eggs can be fertilised by hatching them.
2007-03-23 13:52:39 · answer #1 · answered by Mercutio 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, The eggs I eat are fertilized. I prefer them over the non fertilized commercial eggs. It happened when the rooster got into the pen on day and did all the chickens. We didn't know it then but the eggs tasted so good that now we eat fertilized eggs.
2007-03-23 19:03:22 · answer #2 · answered by Keith B 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A red spot on the yolk is a blood spot and is a small spot of blood from the hen that has been incorporated into the egg. It can happen with fertilised and unfertilised eggs and is not a sign that the egg is fertilised. It is safe to eat but if you don't like it, you can lift it off with the tip of a knife.
As chooks will lay eggs with or without a rooster, commercial egg farmers dispense with roosters altogether and the eggs are unfertilised. I get my eggs from a friend who hatches many of his eggs and so all his eggs are fertilised. It makes no difference to the taste or nutritional value of the egg.
2007-03-23 20:05:38 · answer #3 · answered by tentofield 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
from working on a chicken farm I can say from experience that the Egg Board says you should not sell fertile eggs but they are sold, when you break an egg and the red spot is attached to the yolk, that's a fertile egg (or so I'm to believe).
2007-03-23 18:53:58 · answer #4 · answered by ella_st1507 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Commercial eggs are not normally fertilized.
2007-03-23 18:34:14 · answer #5 · answered by bravozulu 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no this is like the egg in a virgin girl... like b4 menstrual cycle ,, it was w8in 2 b fertilized but it didnt,,, so it just came!!
a frtilized egg will have blood and yolk at the same time
2007-03-23 18:37:11 · answer #6 · answered by nanoo 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No they have never been contaminated with sperm.
Unless they are for breeding they are isolated as baby chickens to lay eggs or go on the barbecue.
2007-03-23 18:42:06 · answer #7 · answered by Billy Butthead 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
Hens lay eggs w/o need of a rooster.
Now... if you were to want chicks, that's when you need a rooster.
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2007-03-23 18:36:02 · answer #8 · answered by tlbs101 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no they tend to come from battery hens
and they do not have roosters living in
2007-03-24 02:00:27 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
if the hen has been around a rooster they are
2007-03-23 22:15:15 · answer #10 · answered by hill bill y 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋