Is an egg basically a chickens period?
1) A very troubling question for animal friends! If the hen are running free with some rooster around, many eggs will be fertilized. So this would be an ovulation leading to a potential chicken, if good taken care of. If the hen do not have any rooster around, and either are running free or are in cages, no eggs will be fertilized. So this would be a period. 2) “Actually, most everyone who buys organic eggs from pastured hens are buying fertilized eggs. This includes every egg sold at our area natural food stores, and the eggs coming from my farm. There’s a big difference between fertilized eggs and eggs containing a fetal bird! Hens kept with roosters are happier, less stressed hens, and happier hens produce healthier, more nutritious eggs. Such eggs that are collected and refrigerated the day they are laid will look the same as sterile eggs. One egg myth claims that if you find a red dot on the yolk, that’s the embryo, but really that’s produced from a broken capillary during the egg
