Have you ever eaten a fertilized chicken egg (zygote)?

[jiwq]

Originally posted by: CanOWorms
I've eaten a fertilized panda egg, but not chicken.

whoa, pandas lay eggs?

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: AmphibSailor

isn't balut duck, not chicken?

Uhmmm, I think you're right. I'll have to ask a Filipino friend. I was sure it was a fertilized chicken egg that I remember, though...

i thought it was a goose egg?

IIRC is larger then a chicken egg

 

[Continuity28]

Originally posted by: jiwq

Originally posted by: CanOWorms
I've eaten a fertilized panda egg, but not chicken.

whoa, pandas lay eggs?

No they don't. Pandas are mammals.

For future reference, the only mammals in the world that lay eggs are the platypus and echidna (which are called monotremes).

 

[chrisms]

I've only had fertilized cougar eggs

 

[lavagirl669]

yeah its called balut....
filipino's like that a lot.

not for me, thanks

 

[waggy]

i live in a farming cummunity. I can get them easy. A guy a few miles down the road will sale them cheap.

 

[KoolDrew]

Originally posted by: ItmPls
No, and I don't plan to.

 

[thesurge]

I heard that if you eat a late-stage development fertilized egg, it tastes regular except you feel the hard beak and feet... and you have to spit them out.

Isn't balut a duck egg, though? Or could it also be a chicken egg.

 

[SVT Cobra]

this tread is making me throw up

and no

 

[iskim86]

Originally posted by: Continuity28

Originally posted by: wiredspider
Aren't they all fertilized? I don't know anything about chicken reproduction...

Standard consumption eggs are not fertilized. They never had the potential to be a chick.

Think of it like when women have a period every month, the egg they shed has no chance to become a baby, unless it was fertilized (add in sperm).

Chicken eggs you eat are the no sperm added (unfertilized - no male around), he's talking about eggs that would have surely hatched in time.

And to answer the thread, no I never did.

wait so unfertilized eggs come out of the hen's uterus? do humans do that too? I thought unfertilized eggs are broken down in the body? or are chickens a special case??

 

[thesurge]

Originally posted by: iskim86

Originally posted by: Continuity28

Originally posted by: wiredspider
Aren't they all fertilized? I don't know anything about chicken reproduction...

Standard consumption eggs are not fertilized. They never had the potential to be a chick.

Think of it like when women have a period every month, the egg they shed has no chance to become a baby, unless it was fertilized (add in sperm).

Chicken eggs you eat are the no sperm added (unfertilized - no male around), he's talking about eggs that would have surely hatched in time.

And to answer the thread, no I never did.

wait so unfertilized eggs come out of the hen's uterus? do humans do that too? I thought unfertilized eggs are broken down in the body? or are chickens a special case??

Chicken's lay eggs, no matter what when they come of age (i think it's around 6 months).

Uh... human's usually don't lay eggs.

 

i asked the wife, balut is definately duck

 

[thesurge]

Originally posted by: troytime
i asked the wife, balut is definately duck

I asked the google.. it's duck.

 

[sandmanwake]

I like the yolk, the liquid, and the white stuff. I don't like the chick and throw that away though or feed it to an animal. I've never had a penoy though. Does that taste like a balut without the chick?

 

[eigen]

Why would it be gross.You eat the egg.You eat the egg after it has hatched and grown up...

 

[Rock Hydra]

No, and I don't intend to.

 

[sandmanwake]

The texture and taste of the chick doesn't appeal to me. By the way, how do you know when the eggs are done, i.e. how long are you supposed to cook the eggs? I found a place that sells the eggs online and this thread has got me wanting to order some.

 

[thesurge]

Originally posted by: sandmanwake
The texture and taste of the chick doesn't appeal to me. By the way, how do you know when the eggs are done, i.e. how long are you supposed to cook the eggs? I found a place that sells the eggs online and this thread has got me wanting to order some.

sorry, man. I wouldn't know.

But I would suppose that you would cook them the same time as you cook non-fertilized eggs. I'm pretty sure 3 weeks is a good age.

 

[MrBlahh]

After watching a show on weird things different cultures eat (I think it was called taboo) I asked my buddy's filipino g/f if she had ever tried it. She loves it. I almost threw up hearing her describe it.

 

[Mo0o]

Never have, ive had baby chickens before, they make good soup

 

[PHiuR]

nope, never had it. it's really not that gross...it's a baby bird and you will probably eat it when it's an adult anyway.

 

[shilala]

We eat fertilized hen's eggs daily.
When eggs are laid they immediately start to cool. Embryo growth doesn't begin until the temp again reaches 84-86 degrees. That's why they are picked daily and go in the fridge.
There's no difference between fertilized eggs and unfertilized (aside from the obvious).

 

[imported_Kensai]

I thought the question was, "Have you fertilized a chicked egg?"

 

[shilala]

Originally posted by: magomago
So when you occaisonally get an egg with a red spot...that means it was fertilized? I've goteen this twice, and both times i thew out the egg b/c i thought it was akin to botulism or something

That's a "blood spot". It's just a fleck from the hen's reproductive tract.
It's sterile and won't hurt you a bit.

"Egg factories" candle the eggs by shining a light through them in order to remove any eggs with a blood spot. That's why you very seldom see them.
They're actually pretty common at different times in the hen's cycle. Each hen lays a few a year.