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Fertile eggs are normally bought from breeders. If you don't know of any, try Craigslist.org, or buy some from an online hatchery or e-bay. Unfertile eggs can be found just about anywhere - Your local food store, a close by farm, or maybe some friends. If you have your own hens and rooster you can get fertile eggs. If you have just hens, your eggs will be unfertile. They both taste the same if you want them for eating purposes.
Some online hatcheries are listed in the related links, in no particular order.
Unfertilized eggs are sold in stores, as the hens are almost never in contact with a rooster. Battery-cage hens often never even see a rooster, as they are kept in tiny, cruel cages. If you want to get fertilized eggs, you can order them from most hatcheries, or, better yet, find someone in your community who has chickens and would be willing to sell a few eggs. Craigslist, as well as local newspapers and bulletin boards, are good places to start.
A hen lays eggs irrespective of the presence of a rooster (cock), the eggs are called unfertilised eggs and will never possibly give rise to a baby chick.
The eggs are called fertilised eggs when the rooster has mated with the hen and the eggs hatch to give rise to baby chick.
What you do is you lift up the chicken very carefully and shake it gently. Then, take two fingers and massage the chicken's back. It won't lay any eggs after that. If it does, the eggs will die of top dogliosis.
Fertilized eggs happen when you have a rooster present. Hens will lay without a rooster, but the eggs are unfertilized.
Ebay has fertilized eggs as does the buy,sell and trade forum on backyardchickens.com.
Some hatcheries sell fertilized eggs but at a higher price.
Fertilized : ducks had sex. You can buy fertile eggs from hatcheries.
Unfertilized : ducks didn't have sex. You can buy them by the dozen at grocery stores.
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Will a bird lay an egg that has not been fertilized?
Yes, hens legs unfertilised eggs all the time.
Why are the eggs which you buy from stores unfertilised?
The eggs in stores are unfertilised because they have not been kept warm where as a normal egg would have been.
What is the difference betwen the nutritional value of fertilised and unfertilised eggs?
There is no difference. All eggs that go to your store are fertilized anyway, there's no way that a hen could or would lay an unfertilized egg.
Can unfertilised eggs get fertile when put in an incubator?
No, the egg is fertilized in the hen before the shell forms around it.
Are eggs laid by a broiler hen fertilized or not?
It depends on whether there is a rooster around to fertilize the eggs. Broiler hens lay eggs that can grow into chicks just as typical egg-layers do - otherwise we wouldn't have broiler chicks to raise.
Can a egg from a shop hatch?
Not generally, as eggs from shops are almost always unfertilised.
What is a dud egg from a chicken?
Many people raise chickens for their eggs. When the chicken lays the eggs and egg that is not fertilized is referred to as a dud egg. These are the eggs we get in the market. If the egg is fertilized, you will get a chick.
What type of honey bee egg will become drones?
Unfertilised eggs hatch as drones.
Do you need and egg incubator for an egg if it is not fertalised?
An incubator is used to hatch fertile eggs artificially. Nothing will hatch from an unfertilised egg.
Does an egg have to be fertilized?
No, most eggs are not.
Where egg cells usually fertilized?
Eggs are usually fertilized in the uterus.
What is a fertilized hen egg?
A fertilized hen egg is an egg that has been fertilized by a rooster. This means that there is a possibility that the egg contains a developing embryo. If the fertilized eggs are not collected and incubated, they will not hatch and will be indistinguishable from unfertilized eggs when cracked open for consumption.
