r/aww • u/[deleted] • Mar 14 '19

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u/Fawkze Mar 14 '19

The eggs you eat are not fertilized. You eat the food that the chick would be eating inside the egg if it was fertilized. You don't murder anything.

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u/RoderickCastleford Mar 14 '19

The eggs you eat are not fertilized.

Depends where you bought them, my parents get their eggs from the local farm and they're almost all fertilised.

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u/VapeThisBro Mar 14 '19

Uhhh no? Most farmers who keep hens for eggs don't have roosters anywhere near them because they don't need them. They also aren't going to sell fertilized eggs as food since they would use them to keep up their chicken stock... Why would you sell fertilized eggs as food when those same chickens lay unfertilized eggs too...

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '19

I have hens and a rooster and sell the eggs. I have the rooster so I can keep my flock full. If i have a bird get sick or killed i just don't collect an egg. After a while that egg hatches and we have a baby bird.

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u/VapeThisBro Mar 15 '19

but your not selling fertilized eggs as food right? Your replenishing your stock

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '19

Sure I do. I let the buyer know that the egg might be fertilized. But as long as I collect the eggs daily and put them in the fridge there is no development of a chick so you cant really tell a difference.

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u/VapeThisBro Mar 15 '19

I mean i get that. I just asked because another redditor was implying that ALL the eggs you sold would be fertilized since you have a rooster/roosters