Chook Me!

Are the eggs most of us have for breakfast really baby chicks that never had a chance to hatch?

If so, why aren't the considered chickens that never developed?

Public Comments

1. No, the eggs you get to fix for your breakfast are un-fertilized eggs. Once in awhile, rarley, one or two do slip passed the inspection.
2. No. Chickens lay eggs whether or not they have been fertilized. The fertilized eggs = baby chicks the NON fertilized eggs = eggs you eat for breakfast.
3. By the smallest chance you honestly didnt know or havent seen. Yes They are baby chicks that didnt get to hatch. These baby chicks are popped out across the country in massive chicken farms ranging from small Amish operations to large corporation egg farming. Yum nothing like good eatings a baby chick! If you actually believe these people about the "fertilized" stuff, next time you crack open an egg take a magnifying glass to it.
4. In a sense, yes. the egg is obviously not fertilised though
5. The same reason why every time a woman menstruates we don't say that a baby has been born.
6. yeah...its so sad...but its survival of the fitest!
7. The eggs you buy at the store are sterile however my chicken eggs are fertilized because I have a rooster . The eggs are fresh , organic and gathered daily so they taste better. The store bought ones are fed hormones and other unrefereed chemicals to get the hens to lay.You can not tell any difference in the eggs if they are not allowed to be left for the hens to sit on them.
8. The eggs we get in the store were never fertilized, so no they're not baby chicks that never hatched.
9. |DUH!!
10. First of all let's make it clear that this is not an issue of eating a chicken. An egg is not a chicken (or a baby chick) till it has been incubated for quite some time. Farther more, except if you are eating eggs from farm raised hens, the eggs produced by the poultry farm hens have not been fertilized, because they have no contact with the rooster. So, every egg is not necessarily a chick to be.
11. No. Sometimes you may find a little white speck in the whites--that is what would have been an embryo if they had been fertilized. The yolk is the amniotic sac.
12. Nope. Like the eggs a woman loses every month during her cycle, if it isnt fertilized, it was NEVER going to be a baby.
13. Like others have said, no it's not fertilized in this country. In the phillipines, there is a following for fertilized, partially developed eggs. You can buy them in all the markets. You poke a small hole in the top, suck out the juices and then crack it open and munch the chick. No i'm not kidding.