This is not a scientific explanation of yolk development into an embryo chick moreover it's a lay observation by me about the size of the membrane coming off the yolk. I sometimes get asked if there's a physical difference between a fertilised and unfertilised chicken egg so I cracked a few of my own and compared them to unfertilised commercial eggs. It seems to me the membrane coming off the yolk is slightly larger in a fertilised egg than in a non-fertilised egg but essentially there's NO physical difference - I try to explain this in the video. Hey, but thanks for watching and supporting my content! ;) www.selfsufficientme.com/
The bullseye dot on the yolk is where the chicks forms from, unfertilised it’s just a dot, when it’s fertilised it’s a dot with a ring around it. The bit you were pointing out is the chalaza, there’s one on each side of the yolk to hold it in place.
After doing a lot of researching on the internet, it seems everyone else is saying opposite of what you mentioned in the video. If the information in the video is incorrect, which many people below are saying it's incorrect, why haven't you removed the video or change the title? It's rather misleading. Lots of your other videos are helpful and I'll assume you didn't know when you made this video or didn't explain clearly enough. Let's improve and learn together.
Ok here is the actual facts. That white "membrane" is called the chalazae and it is to hold the yolk in place in the albumen ("white") of the egg. In the fertilized egg there will be what is called a blastoderm which is a white bullseye looking ring, and if the egg is unfertilized you will see a blastodisc which is just a white dot. The color of the yolks has nothing to do with fertilization. Simply one is free range chicken and the other is store bought, which may be why the yolks vary in color.
@@Selfsufficientme why are you leaving up a video, that is nothing but false information? The world has enough idiots, without intentionally contributing to them.
unfortunately you are comp,etely wrong, a fertilized egg has a doughnut shaped white spot on the yolk, as an infertile egg has just a small white dot on the yolk. Everything else is exactly the same. The white cords on the sides of the yolk keep it in the center of the egg, those are not embryos. People please do your research.
On RUclips - EVERYONE is an expert. That's why you the watcher need to be selective in which channels you watch/follow. Don't just believe what you see/hear on youtube. In all other respects however, this channel does provide useful information and is very interesting for those of us around the world who garden and raise chickens.
Unfortunately you are so wrong. That white bulk material keeps the yolk suspended in the middle of the egg and does not turn into the chicken. The yolk is the egg and there will be a bulls eye white circle in it if it becomes fertilized.
To clarify, the yolk is the food source for the developing embryo. So saying the yolk is the egg is technically still incorrect. But yes, there would be a white circle (or bullseye as you say) on the egg yolk and that is what will develop into a chicken.
+Kayleigh Olivier Hi and thanks for commenting! Yes, I think so too and I know some people say the egg colour etc doesn't matter but I reckon it does. Cheers :)
Im incubating 2 eggs now, im trying so hard to keep it 99F. But it's getting there. I think my eggs are about 10 or 8 days old. They are 1 silkie egg and 1 Normal hen egg.
Kayleigh Olivier If the temp fluctuates slightly + or - it shouldn't hurt anything so don't worry too much... Yes, keeping the temp as steady as possible at 99 is optimal but slight rises and drops or even prolonged periods slightly below or above usually only prolongs or speeds up hatching by a day. Best of luck!
One of my hens laid their first egg and it's a rather small and brown one. Do they normally look that small like a golf ball when they are first laid? Their white Brahma chickens.
+Morgan Lemons yes that can be quite normal to have small or odd shaped eggs when chickens begin to lay for the first time as they mature the eggs will get larger and better developed.
You stated at 00:47 that you underutilized eggs will have a “membrane growth or an embryo growth...”. There is no such thing as an unfertilized embryo. You are pointing at the cheztize. There are two in all normal chicken eggs. They suspend the unfertilized yoke or the embryo if fertilization has occurred.
Very interesting video. I found it by googling if fertilized chicken eggs were okay to eat. I was wondering because my neighbors have some free range chickens - 5 hens and 2 roosters. I know they have been eating the eggs they have found ever since the chickens arrived and I figured some had to be fertilized at least. No the chickens or roosters don't bother me. :) They might bother the other neighbors but not me. I used to do work on a large farm so the sound of the chickens actually brings back really fond memories. :D Because of that place I even like the sound of Guinea fowl and most people I have met do not like that sound. :P - Heidi
+BlackCat2 G'Day Heidi, and thanks for writing your thoughts. Yes, fertilised eggs are indeed safe to eat but I do recommend collecting them soon after laying otherwise if the hens are left to sit on the eggs for several days they will begin to form. What I tried to explain in the video was at the very early stage there's no real difference between a fertilised and unfertilised egg but on close inspection the membrane coming off the yolk might be slightly larger on a fertilised egg but as far as eating goes there's no difference. This is just my observation and not meant to be a scientific factually correct chicken anatomy lesson LOL Cheers :)
Some people will actually eat a fully formed chick right out of the egg, just before it's hatched. Is that "okay" to eat? That depends on your moral and ethical values. I would not eat a fertilized egg that's begun to form into a chicken. The thought of it sickens me. I have a hard enough time eating unfertilized eggs.... by the way, the information he gives in this video is completely wrong. He's guessing. I would not take any advice from him on eggs at all for this reason. Not trying to be mean or put him down, just trying to keep misinformation to a minimum.
@@Selfsufficientme the reason I came here was to see if it was OK and if that was what I thought I was looking at. It actually is a lot more than what you showed. But these came from grocery store. It bothered me though so, I threw it out. What it looked like was male human uh...seed? If you get my drift? Thats the other and just as gross reason I couldn't eat it
Hi I am not sure if you know this but if it fertile the white dot in the egg has a ring around it like a bullseye if not then its just a white dot I found this out on a hatching page on facebook hope it helps
Actually, that membrane has nothing to do with fertilization..... You want to look at the tiny white spot ON the yolk itself. If it's just a spot, not fertilized, if it looks like it has a ring around it or the trademark "bullseye" then it is fertilized.
The colour of your eggs as compared to the store bought eggs is vivid and noticeable. Here in the UK, Free Range means actually free to range through a small door somewhere in the hen house. The chooks might need to walk past a few thousand other chooks to get to it. It's a farce. Here I only buy Woodland Eggs. As they are ranged on fresh pasture or in a wood land setting eating bugs and scratching for "goodies". They're not as good as home eggs. Thanks for the heads up about the fertilisation too. We might need to keep a separate flock for selling/sharing and another for breeding. Didn't know the difference regardless of how technically correct you are. I get the spirit of what you're saying and so thanks. Cheers David
So there is no way to tell when collecting if an egg has been fertilized or not? I have a move in rooster and am getting ready to buy 4 hens after I get a coop built but if I lose one, I'd probably like to have some fertilized so I can replace any I may lose. How would I tell? Is there no visual queue?
Not without breaking them or incubating them. I suggest you collect up twice the amount of eggs as you want babies and start them incubating. By 5 days you can use a bright light put against the shell to light up the interior of the egg and if it is fertile and growing it will look like a red dot or like a little red spider in there. If so keep incubating, if not give another two days and look again...if not then...take the eggs out, eat them, feed them to your dog or back to the chicken as a scrambled egg or throw away.
Tried to crack open an egg this morning and the shell would break, but the skin of it wouldn't. I had to poke it with a fork to pop it open. I was wondering if there's any difference in the shell between a fertilized egg and one that isn't fertilized.
In 1975 our biology class incubated eggs from the supermarket. No one believed the teacher that the eggs would grow to hatch b4 the incubation. 29 hatched out of 32. Still pretty cool. Don't know if today's eggs are fertilized or not.
@@ljv2011 Safeway...brown eggs...don't recall what exact brand. This was several years back. You're right, they can't DEVELOP in a refrigerated environment. But the way chicken eggs work is they don't develop, period, no matter what until the right temperature is applied to them. The blastocyst (essentially embryo at the cell dividing stage) is there and has divided several times before it leaves the hens body, then as it cools the blastocyst quits dividing and goes into a holding pattern waiting for the right heat to begin again. If the heat is not supplied eventually the cells of the blastocyst get too old and expire. I raise poultry here, and I have at times pulled an egg from my fridge a week or more old that I thought I wanted to put with the eating eggs and then later decided that I wanted to try to get a baby from it for various reasons (like a prize rooster died or was killed accidentally and I want to get as many babies from him with the eggs fertilized by him that exist- even if I have to pull them from the fridge). Alot, though not all, of the time it works fine- refrigeration lowers the viability on eggs somewhat and so does age of the egg increasingly. I apply the right heat and we're off to the races. The ones I hatched from the store I just grabbed for the heck of it to see if I COULD get anything to hatch...surprised the heck out of me when I examined them internally to see they were growing. I got two roosters and one hen...rhode island reds to be specific. If you do careful research you'll discover that even in the places that make white eggs....it is common for a late maturing rooster to get missed and put in with the hens and once they are installed in a building with 10's of thousands of birds, finding one in the bunch is more difficult that finding a needle in a 100 haystacks. As long as he is in there...he can breed the hens he has contact with. The ONLY way to ensure that you have unfertilized eggs is to have your own hens and NO roosters on the property or coming from others properties to "visit" with an ability to reach the hens.
It's funny. I've always considered our(australian) store-bought eggs to be much healthier then the pale yellow ones you see on american television because of how much darker the yolks are. But seeing how much darker your free-range ones are compared to even those onesreally brings to home that even those are not good enough.
u r wrong in so many ways! the bigger the white thing is, that actually suspends the yolk in the shell, the fresher the egg is. this is why it is bigger in ur fresh egg & smaller in the store bought. u should actually check ur facts before posting.
Yes perfectly fine to eat - no difference to unfertilised eggs at all - but don't let the hens sit on them for more than 48 hours or it will start developing and then it can become a nasty surprise to crack for an omelet...
Drakencoo All of my chickens are free range and I get a "range" of yolk colors amongst their eggs. Some are very dark orange, some light yellow. I think it depends on breed and the individual bird.
Those white threads coming off the egg yolk will never become a chick.. they are strands that stabilise the yolk and keep the yolk in a central position in the egg. The chick starts developing on a spot on the yolk. Not those strands.
Sorry but this is wrong. A fertilized egg has a little bulls-eye shaped light spot on the yolk, while a non-fertilized egg has just a light-colored dot with no outer rim. It can be hard to see but it will be there.
Gamer_Girl _72 Bro I boiled one and barely realized once it was done 😭😭😭😭😭😭 I also had the audacity to throw it outside because of how traumatized I was-
No, unfertilized eggs cannot produce chicks. That would be like a woman having a baby without a man's sperm. Impossible..... And if you want people to take you seriously online you should consider using full words, not ridiculous abbreviations. You're not texting with your buds, this is a forum where you're reaching out to and potentially conversing with people all over the world and most mature, educated people do not use textese or sms slang, especially if they want to be taken seriously and given any kind of respect.
You seem to think the yolk turns into the chick, when in fact it's the white that turns into the chick, the yolk is food for the chick, the yolk is not the chick. Cheers!
i see fertilized eggs yolk is much darker. not know if it is true, but i hear that unfertilized eggs are not so healthy and does not contain much proteins as fertilized.....
I raise chickens (I'm in the US though) and my yolks change depending on what the chickens are eating. For example I had to lock my chickens up in their back run due to killer turkeys (didn't know that turkeys will attack and kill chickens till it happened). Their yolks are not as dark yellow now that they do not have access to the 1/4 acre to free range on. Whether the eggs are fertile or not does not change the color of the yolks of my eggs. The only time I see changes in my egg yolks is when their free range area and or amount of time to free range changes.
***** I'm setting some of our eggs and some neighbors eggs tonight in the incubator. My first time trying to hatch out any eggs. All of my eggs are lighter when candled. Fingers crossed that I get some to hatch!
***** The worst part is the turkeys were raised from one week old with the cockerel they killed! After doing some research I found out that BBW (hatchery board breasted whites) are known to do this but most people have butchered them before they do because they are meant to be eaten. They are not able to reproduce on their own and typically die of heart failure due to being genetically bred to grow fast and be butchered out by 4-5 months of age. At four months mine now all weigh over 22 lbs (dressed out weight). Heritage birds (for the US) however are not like that and take longer to mature. They also can reproduce on their own.
Yes the fertilized yolks are from our own freerange hens and are darker because they eat a bigger range of foods including kitchen scraps; whereas, the store purchased unfertilized eggs were fed a commercial pellet feed (and maybe some grass) if they were let out to paddock. Often home eggs are much richer and better than commercial eggs. Cheers :)
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Eh, as long as it’s unfertilized theres no harm. The only real unborn we need to focus on caring for is the human unborn. But yeah, chickens are pretty cool I guess
You kill life every day, even if you don't eat animals, so you should not be accusing anyone of killing. So why not educate yourself..... If the brain is not formed in an embryo there is no thought or feelings. End of discussion.
This is not a scientific explanation of yolk development into an embryo chick moreover it's a lay observation by me about the size of the membrane coming off the yolk. I sometimes get asked if there's a physical difference between a fertilised and unfertilised chicken egg so I cracked a few of my own and compared them to unfertilised commercial eggs. It seems to me the membrane coming off the yolk is slightly larger in a fertilised egg than in a non-fertilised egg but essentially there's NO physical difference - I try to explain this in the video. Hey, but thanks for watching and supporting my content! ;) www.selfsufficientme.com/
The bullseye dot on the yolk is where the chicks forms from, unfertilised it’s just a dot, when it’s fertilised it’s a dot with a ring around it. The bit you were pointing out is the chalaza, there’s one on each side of the yolk to hold it in place.
After doing a lot of researching on the internet, it seems everyone else is saying opposite of what you mentioned in the video. If the information in the video is incorrect, which many people below are saying it's incorrect, why haven't you removed the video or change the title? It's rather misleading. Lots of your other videos are helpful and I'll assume you didn't know when you made this video or didn't explain clearly enough. Let's improve and learn together.
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That's not an embryo, that's a chalazae which helps in suspending the yolk at the center of the egg.
Ok here is the actual facts. That white "membrane" is called the chalazae and it is to hold the yolk in place in the albumen ("white") of the egg. In the fertilized egg there will be what is called a blastoderm which is a white bullseye looking ring, and if the egg is unfertilized you will see a blastodisc which is just a white dot. The color of the yolks has nothing to do with fertilization. Simply one is free range chicken and the other is store bought, which may be why the yolks vary in color.
+hunt fish Nice explanation - thank you! Cheers :)
👍Now YOUR explanation is ACCURATE. 👍...
@@Selfsufficientme why are you leaving up a video, that is nothing but false information? The world has enough idiots, without intentionally contributing to them.
But how does the egg become fertilized? Just over time basically cooking through the UV rays?
I started my hens on feed that's for laying hens and it has marigold extract which gives my chickens eggs a nice golden yolk.
unfortunately you are comp,etely wrong, a fertilized egg has a doughnut shaped white spot on the yolk, as an infertile egg has just a small white dot on the yolk. Everything else is exactly the same. The white cords on the sides of the yolk keep it in the center of the egg, those are not embryos. People please do your research.
I wanted to say the same
The doughnut you say is the blastoderm
Thank you!
I'm going to raise chickens in class for SCIENCE btw I'm in 4th grade
I dont think you do science in 4th grade. Im in 6th grade and i have barley done any science...
On RUclips - EVERYONE is an expert. That's why you the watcher need to be selective in which channels you watch/follow. Don't just believe what you see/hear on youtube. In all other respects however, this channel does provide useful information and is very interesting for those of us around the world who garden and raise chickens.
He's wrong where the spot he pointed that is not where the chicken is gonna start it's life it's starts from the tiny spec on the yolk
Unfortunately you are so wrong. That white bulk material keeps the yolk suspended in the middle of the egg and does not turn into the chicken. The yolk is the egg and there will be a bulls eye white circle in it if it becomes fertilized.
To clarify, the yolk is the food source for the developing embryo. So saying the yolk is the egg is technically still incorrect. But yes, there would be a white circle (or bullseye as you say) on the egg yolk and that is what will develop into a chicken.
Blastoderm is the white thing in the yolk
I have to say your chicken eggs look better.
+Kayleigh Olivier Hi and thanks for commenting! Yes, I think so too and I know some people say the egg colour etc doesn't matter but I reckon it does. Cheers :)
I agree with you there. 😄
Im incubating 2 eggs now, im trying so hard to keep it 99F. But it's getting there. I think my eggs are about 10 or 8 days old. They are 1 silkie egg and 1 Normal hen egg.
Kayleigh Olivier If the temp fluctuates slightly + or - it shouldn't hurt anything so don't worry too much... Yes, keeping the temp as steady as possible at 99 is optimal but slight rises and drops or even prolonged periods slightly below or above usually only prolongs or speeds up hatching by a day. Best of luck!
One of my hens laid their first egg and it's a rather small and brown one. Do they normally look that small like a golf ball when they are first laid? Their white Brahma chickens.
+Morgan Lemons yes that can be quite normal to have small or odd shaped eggs when chickens begin to lay for the first time as they mature the eggs will get larger and better developed.
You stated at 00:47 that you underutilized eggs will have a “membrane growth or an embryo growth...”. There is no such thing as an unfertilized embryo. You are pointing at the cheztize. There are two in all normal chicken eggs. They suspend the unfertilized yoke or the embryo if fertilization has occurred.
That is just the membrane that supports the yolk as the egg is forming. It has nothing to do with fertility of the egg.
***** I was taught that the stringy thing is called the chalaza (sp?) and is an anchoring support for the yolk.
You are correct. He should take this video down. Too much misinformation here.
Very interesting video. I found it by googling if fertilized chicken eggs were okay to eat. I was wondering because my neighbors have some free range chickens - 5 hens and 2 roosters. I know they have been eating the eggs they have found ever since the chickens arrived and I figured some had to be fertilized at least. No the chickens or roosters don't bother me. :) They might bother the other neighbors but not me. I used to do work on a large farm so the sound of the chickens actually brings back really fond memories. :D Because of that place I even like the sound of Guinea fowl and most people I have met do not like that sound. :P
- Heidi
+BlackCat2 G'Day Heidi, and thanks for writing your thoughts. Yes, fertilised eggs are indeed safe to eat but I do recommend collecting them soon after laying otherwise if the hens are left to sit on the eggs for several days they will begin to form. What I tried to explain in the video was at the very early stage there's no real difference between a fertilised and unfertilised egg but on close inspection the membrane coming off the yolk might be slightly larger on a fertilised egg but as far as eating goes there's no difference. This is just my observation and not meant to be a scientific factually correct chicken anatomy lesson LOL Cheers :)
Some people will actually eat a fully formed chick right out of the egg, just before it's hatched. Is that "okay" to eat? That depends on your moral and ethical values. I would not eat a fertilized egg that's begun to form into a chicken. The thought of it sickens me. I have a hard enough time eating unfertilized eggs.... by the way, the information he gives in this video is completely wrong. He's guessing. I would not take any advice from him on eggs at all for this reason. Not trying to be mean or put him down, just trying to keep misinformation to a minimum.
@@escapefromny2012 thats just barbaric! To me🤗 GROSS TOO!
@@Selfsufficientme the reason I came here was to see if it was OK and if that was what I thought I was looking at. It actually is a lot more than what you showed. But these came from grocery store. It bothered me though so, I threw it out. What it looked like was male human uh...seed? If you get my drift? Thats the other and just as gross reason I couldn't eat it
You missed the bulls eye.
Hi I am not sure if you know this but if it fertile the white dot in the egg has a ring around it like a bullseye if not then its just a white dot I found this out on a hatching page on facebook hope it helps
Emma Smith Hi Emma, I'm no expert on fertile eggs but I have noticed the ring on eggs which have been left to develop a few days. Thanks :)
You are completely wrong Sir, about just about everything in your video. Clearly you're not an expert, you're not even an well informed novice.
Actually, that membrane has nothing to do with fertilization..... You want to look at the tiny white spot ON the yolk itself. If it's just a spot, not fertilized, if it looks like it has a ring around it or the trademark "bullseye" then it is fertilized.
The colour of your eggs as compared to the store bought eggs is vivid and noticeable. Here in the UK, Free Range means actually free to range through a small door somewhere in the hen house. The chooks might need to walk past a few thousand other chooks to get to it. It's a farce. Here I only buy Woodland Eggs. As they are ranged on fresh pasture or in a wood land setting eating bugs and scratching for "goodies". They're not as good as home eggs. Thanks for the heads up about the fertilisation too. We might need to keep a separate flock for selling/sharing and another for breeding. Didn't know the difference regardless of how technically correct you are. I get the spirit of what you're saying and so thanks.
Cheers David
So there is no way to tell when collecting if an egg has been fertilized or not? I have a move in rooster and am getting ready to buy 4 hens after I get a coop built but if I lose one, I'd probably like to have some fertilized so I can replace any I may lose. How would I tell? Is there no visual queue?
Not without breaking them or incubating them. I suggest you collect up twice the amount of eggs as you want babies and start them incubating. By 5 days you can use a bright light put against the shell to light up the interior of the egg and if it is fertile and growing it will look like a red dot or like a little red spider in there. If so keep incubating, if not give another two days and look again...if not then...take the eggs out, eat them, feed them to your dog or back to the chicken as a scrambled egg or throw away.
Your chickens and eggs look incredible. What do you feed your chickens?
Tried to crack open an egg this morning and the shell would break, but the skin of it wouldn't. I had to poke it with a fork to pop it open. I was wondering if there's any difference in the shell between a fertilized egg and one that isn't fertilized.
I don't think in the early stages but as the chick develops the membrane would probably develop - just guessing... I'm no expert obviously. Cheers :)
is there any nutritional difference?
In 1975 our biology class incubated eggs from the supermarket. No one believed the teacher that the eggs would grow to hatch b4 the incubation. 29 hatched out of 32. Still pretty cool. Don't know if today's eggs are fertilized or not.
Of course it shows me an ad for a McMuffin
You must be kidding and misleading other people since it is the germinal disc that matters on fertilized eggs.
Intro is way too long, especially for a video that's only 2 minutes long.
Wait your telling me the whole time I’ve been eating unborn baby chicken?
No
The eggs you've been eating are unfertilized. Sorta of like eating sperm.
@@sholos4478 LOL, jokes on you. I have HATCHED chicken eggs from the store. There is no guarantee that they are unfertilized either.
@@WindsofChange from what store??? Eggs in stores are refrigerated and a chick can’t develop in that environment........
@@ljv2011 Safeway...brown eggs...don't recall what exact brand. This was several years back.
You're right, they can't DEVELOP in a refrigerated environment. But the way chicken eggs work is they don't develop, period, no matter what until the right temperature is applied to them. The blastocyst (essentially embryo at the cell dividing stage) is there and has divided several times before it leaves the hens body, then as it cools the blastocyst quits dividing and goes into a holding pattern waiting for the right heat to begin again. If the heat is not supplied eventually the cells of the blastocyst get too old and expire.
I raise poultry here, and I have at times pulled an egg from my fridge a week or more old that I thought I wanted to put with the eating eggs and then later decided that I wanted to try to get a baby from it for various reasons (like a prize rooster died or was killed accidentally and I want to get as many babies from him with the eggs fertilized by him that exist- even if I have to pull them from the fridge). Alot, though not all, of the time it works fine- refrigeration lowers the viability on eggs somewhat and so does age of the egg increasingly. I apply the right heat and we're off to the races. The ones I hatched from the store I just grabbed for the heck of it to see if I COULD get anything to hatch...surprised the heck out of me when I examined them internally to see they were growing. I got two roosters and one hen...rhode island reds to be specific.
If you do careful research you'll discover that even in the places that make white eggs....it is common for a late maturing rooster to get missed and put in with the hens and once they are installed in a building with 10's of thousands of birds, finding one in the bunch is more difficult that finding a needle in a 100 haystacks. As long as he is in there...he can breed the hens he has contact with.
The ONLY way to ensure that you have unfertilized eggs is to have your own hens and NO roosters on the property or coming from others properties to "visit" with an ability to reach the hens.
You seem really nice but nearly everything you said is incorrect
It's funny. I've always considered our(australian) store-bought eggs to be much healthier then the pale yellow ones you see on american television because of how much darker the yolks are. But seeing how much darker your free-range ones are compared to even those onesreally brings to home that even those are not good enough.
u r wrong in so many ways! the bigger the white thing is, that actually suspends the yolk in the shell, the fresher the egg is. this is why it is bigger in ur fresh egg & smaller in the store bought. u should actually check ur facts before posting.
I made it quite clear this video wasn't about "facts" so I don't need a lecture from you who probably didn't even watch it in full.
so the eggs are fine to eat if you take them out of the pen in the morning? also is interbreeding ok or does it have any side effects?
Yes perfectly fine to eat - no difference to unfertilised eggs at all - but don't let the hens sit on them for more than 48 hours or it will start developing and then it can become a nasty surprise to crack for an omelet...
lol ok thank you
Can you hatch em if they are fertilised theoritically ?
Yes
I don't think the purchased eggs are free-range. They're most likely "coop and run" eggs. The yolks aren't orange enough to be free-range.
Drakencoo All of my chickens are free range and I get a "range" of yolk colors amongst their eggs. Some are very dark orange, some light yellow. I think it depends on breed and the individual bird.
Me speed running telling every comment here the egg was infertile
I want to make Balut but I don’t know where to buy fertilized eggs. Can anyone give me a source? I live in the Midwest of The U.S.A.
Where can I buy fertilised chicken egg??
Monai Boonnantakul online
Normally farmers don't sell fertile eggs in the market they keep them to hatch
Those white threads coming off the egg yolk will never become a chick.. they are strands that stabilise the yolk and keep the yolk in a central position in the egg. The chick starts developing on a spot on the yolk. Not those strands.
What kind of rooster do you have?
Sorry but this is wrong. A fertilized egg has a little bulls-eye shaped light spot on the yolk, while a non-fertilized egg has just a light-colored dot with no outer rim. It can be hard to see but it will be there.
why wasnt the egg fertilized?
Well I just cracked open fertile eggs using the advice from the comments...
OMG I ATE A FERTILIZED EGG ;( pOoR BABY!!
Gamer_Girl _72 Bro I boiled one and barely realized once it was done 😭😭😭😭😭😭 I also had the audacity to throw it outside because of how traumatized I was-
Video starts from 0:20
Misleading title
fertilized eggs are way more powerful than underutilized egg, for best health chose fertilized eggs of course
How the hell am I here? I started with watching faze videos...
I've had my chickens for 2 years and have not gotten any fertilized eggs and I do have roosters and eggs
Trim their bottoms...if they are too fluffy it can interfere with the job getting done if you know what I mean.
It's all about the white spot on the yolk
Plz tell me wid conformity dat do unfertilised egg produce chicks?
No, unfertilized eggs cannot produce chicks. That would be like a woman having a baby without a man's sperm. Impossible..... And if you want people to take you seriously online you should consider using full words, not ridiculous abbreviations. You're not texting with your buds, this is a forum where you're reaching out to and potentially conversing with people all over the world and most mature, educated people do not use textese or sms slang, especially if they want to be taken seriously and given any kind of respect.
wow your eggs do look A LOT better!!
Thank you mate! :)
I still can't tell the difference
Thank you, helpful, but.... I need to break an egg :(
I can't even watch the video because fertilized is spelled improperly.
Good call June, but your comment doesn't even require the adverb "even."
This is not correct.
You seem to think the yolk turns into the chick, when in fact it's the white that turns into the chick, the yolk is food for the chick, the yolk is not the chick. Cheers!
Lewis H other way around
I don't see why people don't google shit if they are going to pretend they know what they are talking about, Lewis google is your friend dummy.
So the difference for you is, the homegrown look nicer you reckon....okay then.
What if the egg is brown color
i see fertilized eggs yolk is much darker. not know if it is true, but i hear that unfertilized eggs are not so healthy and does not contain much proteins as fertilized.....
I raise chickens (I'm in the US though) and my yolks change depending on what the chickens are eating. For example I had to lock my chickens up in their back run due to killer turkeys (didn't know that turkeys will attack and kill chickens till it happened). Their yolks are not as dark yellow now that they do not have access to the 1/4 acre to free range on. Whether the eggs are fertile or not does not change the color of the yolks of my eggs. The only time I see changes in my egg yolks is when their free range area and or amount of time to free range changes.
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I'm setting some of our eggs and some neighbors eggs tonight in the incubator. My first time trying to hatch out any eggs. All of my eggs are lighter when candled. Fingers crossed that I get some to hatch!
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The worst part is the turkeys were raised from one week old with the cockerel they killed! After doing some research I found out that BBW (hatchery board breasted whites) are known to do this but most people have butchered them before they do because they are meant to be eaten. They are not able to reproduce on their own and typically die of heart failure due to being genetically bred to grow fast and be butchered out by 4-5 months of age. At four months mine now all weigh over 22 lbs (dressed out weight). Heritage birds (for the US) however are not like that and take longer to mature. They also can reproduce on their own.
Not so about nutritional value. Who can find research to say otherwise?
and cause cancer
great video
Thanks a lot.
I watched this while eating fried eggs 🍳... that membrane thing was nasty 😄
Fry it a bit more !!!
I'm here because I debated with my wife about how eggs get made omw to the store today. 😅
I did the rubber egg experiment on a
Fertilised egg 0_o
Alpha Will Gaming! That would definitely be interesting to see!
omg... obvious illuminati, but whatever
I don't want to eat eggs. I don't want to kill a baby chicken :{ they are so cute. Why do humans underestimate chickens so much
Just pass the bacon
The fertilized yolks are darker than the unfertilized yolks
Yes the fertilized yolks are from our own freerange hens and are darker because they eat a bigger range of foods including kitchen scraps; whereas, the store purchased unfertilized eggs were fed a commercial pellet feed (and maybe some grass) if they were let out to paddock. Often home eggs are much richer and better than commercial eggs. Cheers :)
No anti-abortion comments?
My one died :(
He explained the difference in looks but what makes one fertilized and the other one not fertilized?
He hasn't a clue what he's talking about...don't listen to a word of what he said.
wwwooooolllliiiieeeesss
nice.
Fertilized eggs mean theres rooster semen in the egg?
The white dot on the yolk is the baby btw, lmao sperm in a yolk
my supermarket eggs are fertilized I have the inside egg in the jar right now
An-akwardperson
Inside egg? What do u mean? Also what happened did anything grow?
are fertilised eggs dager for our health??
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Cool
this has nothing to do with the video. please learn some respect and social awareness
This is the only video of yours I haven’t liked- because it seems rather wrong to eat an embryo.😣
Eh, as long as it’s unfertilized theres no harm. The only real unborn we need to focus on caring for is the human unborn. But yeah, chickens are pretty cool I guess
But I heard people saying that you could hatch the ones from the supermarket
99 Peacock no
I don’t think I’m the US many companies would sell fertilized eggs. Edit [It would anger a lot of Vegans.]
I have done it...hatched store chicken eggs
Spelled fertilized dude
+derrick ingram Not in Australian/UK English it's with an "s" :)
Self Sufficient Me not in the usa
Americans are nothing if they're not parochial. lol
It's called English, as in from England. In England we say fertilised.
Self Sufficient Me Umm, no, it's still fertilized i live in England
Free range does nothing
Except: give a better life for the hens, make better tasting eggs, keep the pests down on your property, and overall makes me feel good ;)
Doesn't make better tasting eggs, and in fact causes the eggs to have more potential bacteria than non-free range.
😂😂
You guys are eating menstruation waste of hen 🤢🤢🤢🤢
Be a vegetarian
This video gives misinformation. Please delete it.
Fertilised heheheCan't take this video seriously now
I believe that's how they spell it outside the U.S.
You just killed a life
You kill life every day, even if you don't eat animals, so you should not be accusing anyone of killing. So why not educate yourself..... If the brain is not formed in an embryo there is no thought or feelings. End of discussion.
The egg is on pause, it doesn't start growing until you start incubating it, then it's alive.
And it was delicious