Could this happen?

Beans_On

My girlfriend says a few years ago she cracked an egg and there was half formed baby chick (just bones and blood).It came straight from her grannys farm.
if this can happen how do we know which ones to eat?

JC 2K3

We stop chickens from mating with roosters........

What sort of retarded question is that?

Dave!

Beans_On wrote:

My girlfriend says a few years ago she cracked an egg and there was half formed baby chick (just bones and blood).It came straight from her grannys farm.
if this can happen how do we know which ones to eat?

Just eat the ones that don't have half formed baby chicks in them.

Easy!

Pigman II

Beans_On wrote:

if this can happen how do we know which ones to eat?

I'm afraid we don't and it's just pot luck if you haven't come across one yet. Statistically speaking the odds of getting a half-formed baby chick in your egg are more than 3,000 to 1. So the farmers have decided to just live with the implications of that rather than fork out for expensive airport-style x-ray machines and people educated enough to operate them.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Pigman II wrote:

I'm afraid we don't and it's just pot luck if you haven't come across one yet. Statistically speaking the odds of getting a half-formed baby chick in your egg are more than 3,000 to 1. So the farmers have decided to just live with the implications of that rather than fork out for expensive airport-style x-ray machines and people educated enough to operate them.

Why don't they just take em down the local airport?

Zillah

"Excuse me, I don't own my own XRay machine but I'm very worried about my egg you see..."
"Get out!"

Ruu_Old

Ah a few chicken bones will do you no harm. I don't think there is any way of finding out which ones are okay to eat.

F.i.n.t.a.N.

im pretty sure the eggs we eat are just unfertilized eggs from the hen, ones with chicks would have been fertilized ones that never developed

think of you eggs a a chickens period

thefinalstage

You can hold an egg up to a bright light and see if a chick is inside or not and keep the rooster from parking his train in the tunnel might help as well.

Doomspell

I always thought the ones with half deformed chicks floated and the 'ok ones to eat' ones sank. Before boiling eggs I always check to see if they float or not.

FlutterinBantam

Ahem... I should know a little about eggs an stuff.... fresh eggs will not float... bad ones will, as some air has gotten in... OK?

madpanfan

Beans_On wrote:

My girlfriend says a few years ago she cracked an egg and there was half formed baby chick ......

Oh, you'll have to start believing more of what your GF says. (or she might crack you over the head)

scojones

Wait a minute dude, your gf shagged a chicken? :eek:

Elmo

The eggs that we eat are not fertizised, on a farm you might come a cross a fertalised egg as farmers will raise chickhens.

At least that's how I understand it.

L31mr0d

an easy check to see if an egg is good or not is to spin it on a flat surface, stop it with your index finger and thumb then let go of it. If it continues to spin (albeit a lot slower) then the egg is fine. Something to do with the yolk still rotating within the egg white causing it to continue moving.

On the topic, how many people actually register they are actually eating a chickens period when eating an egg. I have a vegan friend that loves bringing it up mid gulp. She likes to put the image of a sanitary towel into my mind with a chicken cracking one of her eggs into it. Its funny I wouldn't eat the period of any other animal, unless its encased in a shell of some kind... kinda weird when you think about it *pukes up a little* Would you eat a scrambled chicken egg if it came out of the chicken without the shell on it?

ApeXaviour

JC 2K3 wrote:

We stop chickens from mating with roosters........

What sort of retarded question is that?

lmao

Lust4Life

Posted by thelastangryman
You can hold an egg up to a bright light and see if a chick is inside or not and keep the rooster from parking his train in the tunnel might help as well.

Being from Dairy country I can tell you the term for that is called "Candling" because in the olden days before electricity, that is how farmers checked their eggs before bringing them to market to sell - they held them up to a candle when freshly harvested and could see if it was just egg or a solid mass inside.

History CAN come in handy!:D

Niall123

Found this guy on a pillar in wexford, the eyes hadn't even developed.

Rhyme

Ruu wrote:

Ah a few chicken bones will do you no harm. I don't think there is any way of finding out which ones are okay to eat.

Shake them and listen for a rattle?

arbeitsscheuer

L31mr0d wrote:

On the topic, how many people actually register they are actually eating a chickens period when eating an egg. I have a vegan friend that loves bringing it up mid gulp. She likes to put the image of a sanitary towel into my mind with a chicken cracking one of her eggs into it. Its funny I wouldn't eat the period of any other animal, unless its encased in a shell of some kind... kinda weird when you think about it *pukes up a little* Would you eat a scrambled chicken egg if it came out of the chicken without the shell on it?

Have we ever had a more compelling justification for the truism that Ignorance is bliss?

uncle ernie

L31mr0d wrote:

an easy check to see if an egg is good or not is to spin it on a flat surface, stop it with your index finger and thumb then let go of it.

if the egg spins anti-clockwise its contents are evil and therefore unsuitable for human consumption

monkeyfudge

But which came first?

Pigman II

monkeyfudge wrote:

But which came first?

I heard the rooster did.

Rhyme

Pigman II wrote:

I heard the rooster did.

¬_¬

Dooom

Reminds of me of that chicken god thing, Quatzyputmymedalon or whatever the feckers name is.

madhitchhiker

Originally posted by Beans_On
My girlfriend says a few years ago she cracked an egg and there was half formed baby chick (just bones and blood).It came straight from her grannys farm.
if this can happen how do we know which ones to eat?

eggs that haven't been seat on by the mother chicken are okay and fresh. but once these hens sit on their eggs, they're incubating it for baby chicks to form so don't get any eggs from then on if you don't want to see half-formed chicks on your bowl!:D

\m/_(>_<)_\m/

JC 2K3 wrote:

What sort of retarded question is that?

thank god i didn't say that... they would have banned me.

gucci

Zillah wrote:

"Excuse me, I don't own my own XRay machine but I'm very worried about my egg you see..."
"Get out!"

you cant x-ray the eggs because they become microwaved and this happens

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nt1-x7PyJFk