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Interesting Facts About Fertilized Chicken Eggs

1. Hens can tell which eggs are healthy.
Possibly because of their ultra violet vision, hens are able to tell which eggs are viable and she will remove all others from the nest. She uses this ability with her chicks too. If they are poorly she will devote her time to those who are stronger and more likely to survive.
2. A chickens’ egg is a small packaged miracle.
It contains everything a small developing chick needs to grow and thrive over the next few weeks. An egg contains 7 grams of protein, 5 grams of fat and numerous vitamins, minerals and nutrients to create and sustain life, which it does very ably for around 22-23 days.
The chick will slowly absorb this ‘broth’ over the next 21 days when it will hatch, all being well.
3. Hens talk to their chicks through the shell.
They will trill and coo daily to the eggs especially nearing hatch time when the chickswill talk back!
4. Some people have a fear of breaking open an egg and finding a formed chick on their plate.
If you buy from a supermarket this is next to impossible since the industrial barns in which the hens are raised do not have roosters.
Also, eggs have to be checked by inspectors for defects and flaws. They candle the eggs and anything ‘unsightly’ is discarded.If you buy locally, the farmer will likely have candled the egg or kept it refrigerated so it won’t develop into a chick, but there is a slight possibility here if he has a rooster.
5. The temperature of a freshly laid egg is 105°F (40.5°C)
Once laid, it cools fairly rapidly. If your hen is setting on these eggs, she will keep the temperature somewhere between 99.5°F and 102°F to ensure development of the chick. She will turn them regularly to ensure equal heating and rotation so that the chick doesn’t ‘stick’ to the membrane. She even plucks her breast feathers so the egg can be next to her skin.
6. How do you know if an egg is fertile?
There are two ways to tell – firstly, you can crack open the egg and look for the ‘bullseye’.
All eggs will have a small pale circle in the yolk – this is the blastodisc (genetic material from the hen). If the egg is fertilized, the roosters’ genetic material will be added to the disc making it a blastoderm. The disc will now take on the appearance of a bullseye.
The second option is to candle the egg – no wasted eggs this way.
It’s unlikely you will be able to see anything before the 3rd day at the earliest.
7. After the rooster has mated with the hen it will take 7-10 days before the eggs will be fertile.
8. You can buy formed chicks in eggs from us at the best price.