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by NinjaKitten 1804 days ago
You have actually just demonstrated that you have no idea how chicken reproduction works. None of the eggs you can buy at the store are fertilised. It is rather obvious when they are. You cannot develop a chick embryo in unfertilised eggs. You just get rotten eggs if they lie around for too long and get warm.
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pvaldes 1803 days ago
> You have actually just demonstrated that you have no idea how chicken reproduction works.

> None of the eggs you can buy at the store are fertilized.

We were talking about a tradition that was created in the middle of the last century, when home fridges started to include egg trays, and supermarkets were (probably) a little different than today.

Yes, I can inform you that you can definitely buy organic fertilized eggs in many places, at least in Europe.

And if you think that we never studied embryology and sexual reproduction in the faculty of biology and that I did my thesis in animal reproduction without knowing what is an ovule and what is a spermatozoa... well, you have a really weird sense of the reality. I would not buy anything "demonstrated by you" at this moment.

By the way, my rooster send you a salute.

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systoll 1804 days ago
> It is rather obvious when they are.

Commercial egg-laying hens aren’t going to be let anywhere near a rooster, so you’re not going to get fertilised eggs from the store.

But… unless they’ve been incubated, the only difference is a white spot in the yolk.

If you get eggs from a recreational / family farm, you may well get a bunch of fertilised eggs — you wouldn’t notice unless you knew what to look for.

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NinjaKitten 1803 days ago
> Commercial egg-laying hens aren’t going to be let anywhere near a rooster, so you’re not going to get fertilised eggs from the store.

That's why it's rather obvious when they are fertilised. Because you actually will often have to consciously go out of your way to ask for fertilised eggs, usually specifically for chicken breeding purposes.

Sorry for that I could have made it more obvious. Haha.

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NinjaKitten 1804 days ago
https://www.raising-happy-chickens.com/fertile-chicken-eggs....
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