What does one look for in a chicken egg to tell that it had been fertile?

Looking for organic management of stomach worms in layers.

Re: hard boiling fresh eggs.
I read a tip, and it works very well for me - the shells slip right off the fresh egg.
Eggs should be cold. Bring the water to a boil and drop the cold eggs into the water. They will sometimes crack a bit. I boil a dozen at a time - for 15 minutes.
After giving up on boiling eggs, we are again enjoying them.

Terri - fresh eggs are 'perky' and are much firmer than older eggs. As eggs age they begin to lose that firmness and begin to separate from the shell.

As a side note, we usually let a carton of eggs age in the refrigerator for a month for hard boiling. You may have noticed, but fresh eggs are a nightmare to peel when you hard boil them.

Please xcuse my ignorance......I was raised on a small farm in Lancaster, PA. We raised and ate all kinds of animals, including chickens, which 40 years later, I have recently gotten back into. We have 14 free range birds, 4 golden comets, 4 rhode island reds, and 6 smaller frame black and white ones (can't remember what their proper name is). 2 of our golden comets have begun to lay, however, when i broke the first egg while using it in a cookie batter, it seemed quite solid or sludgy as compared to the fluidity (mixability?) of a white (industrialized) egg. I guess I was just wondering whether anyone else has observed similar eggs. Are they normally a little firmer? Thank you for any input and again, excuse my ignorance.....trying to re-learn the whole process. Terri

i'm lookin up this for a friend on the wormer wazine for his
chickens. he wants all information and warnings about wazine. what if someone eat eggs only 10 after chickens received wazine could it harm them.

I own and operate a small to mid-sized Cicken/egg farm. I do
this for a living. I raised birds as a youth when growing up and
went full-time into egg production almost 18 years ago. I am an
absolute believer in free-range chickens and the husbandry related
to that.. I read, with interest, many of the posts above, and I see
a common thread concerning the storage and refrigeration of eggs. I
sell thousands of eggs each week - usually through the network of
Farmers Markets throughout Northern California. The law requires me
to keep all my eggs in a walk-in cooler prior to selling
them...this, of course, I do. However I simply do not refrigerate
ANY eggs that are for my own personal use or for my friends at
Church...I have to stress that these are for my and my family food
chain only. I will leave the obvious conclusion to the reader. In
the same vein the law requires me to wash and candle every single
egg - again I comply with this..however I do NOT wash

will your chickens lay eggs if u move them to a new
place

Hey everybody me and my grandfather have a small farm for just a
hobby and we have bantam chickens. they sometimes lay little blue
eggs and sometimes little green ones. My grandfather told me that
the blue eggs have no cholesterol. i would like to know if this is
true?

Hi, my first time trying to take care of chickens. Mother
Nature, I have chickens, rooster, and a egg in a nest sitting off
in the corner of the coop. But I'm worried, because I haven't seen
the hen responsible for the egg sitting on it. How long does a egg
have to be sat on for it to become a chick?

I would recommend STOREY'S GUIDE TO RAISING CHICKENS to each of
the commentors above - it covers each and every question raised
here including egg storage. I have been raising and keeping
chickens now for a few years and I can tell from these comments
that you all are completely inexperienced. Lack of experience will
mean that you and the chickens will suffer needlessly. To the
commentor whose chicken died from Mareks's Disease - your other
chicken's are probably infected too and there are vaccines for many
of the most common poultry diseases but they are administered in
the chick stage. Also chickens need to be wormed for roundworms and
other types of worms quite often. Use wazine. organic feed!!!
please. if your hens don't eat layer mix they won't lay eggs. the
pellets/crumbles are 100% natural grains - no hormones or
medications. It's against federal law to sell eggs from hens on
meds. meat birds too. only chick starter crumbles contain
medication and that is a coccidistat which helps to build the
chicks immunity to coccidiosis. without it the chicks will have
bloody stools and die from their intestines being full of the
organisms living in dirt.

the chicken eggs in our chicken coop are always picked by other
birds. What is a simple way to avoid chicken egg predators? Thanks
Chris

For what it's worth: We lived in a village in Cameroon, Africa
for one year. We would buy a tray of 30 eggs and sometimes kept
them for up to a month at a time without refrigeration. It's a
warm, tropical climate 6 degrees north of the equator. We only had
1 or 2 eggs be bad in a whole tray. We don't know if they were
already bad when we got them or how long they had already gone
without refrigeration. At one time, we have left the village for
two or three months. When we got back, we found that around half of
the eggs were still good.

i just bought this place in the country the people left me about
15 laying hens lol i have horses but like to know some of th eeggs
or tan and a light white and would also like ot know which ones
would lay chicks i dont know what kind of chickens have different
one out here just trying to see what is good and not i know have to
redo alot of the coops they or in bad shape and to see what kind i
can make for them thank you for your help

Maggie van Rensburg, I've just joined, so this info may be a bit
late: Try not to keep eggs in the 'fridge at all. Rather store them
in a double -walled cardboard box (to keep them as cool as
possible). You can make the box by simply putting one into another.
Keep it closed. Try to use them all before they float in a litre of
water into which a teaspoon of salt has been added. Keep your eggs
with the air-pocket (the broader end of the egg) on top and they
should stay useable for two to three weeks.

Re. the cholesterol in eggs and "stickiness". It's important to
remember a couple of facts: 1) most (>70%) of the cholesterol in
your body is produced by your liver and cells. The more you eat,
the less you produce and vice versa. 2) cholesterol is of one type,
however it travels through the body in different "packages" since,
being insoluble in water, it requires some sort of protein
packaging to get around. 3) cholesterol doesn't "stick" to
arteries. The normal way cholesterol gets to your tissues, where
it's needed by almost every cell to survive, is by migrating
through the arterial walls. The problem with this is, for reasons
not completely understood, some of the cholesterol is damaged
(oxidized, etc.) and recognized as foreign and hence attacked by
white blood cells. This leads to an accumulation of
cholesterol-stuffed, dead white blood cells and other byproducts of
inflammation (calcium, etc.) that leads to plaque formation in
arterial walls. There is no "bad" or "good" cholesterol, and
dietary sources are very marginally, if at all important, in what
happens to the cholesterol in your body.

When I raised chickens in the early 1970's someone gave me an
article, possibly in Prevention magazine, that compared fertile
eggs to unfertile ones. They found the same amount of cholesterol
in each, but the cholesterol from fertile eggs would flow freely
through the body and be eliminated, while the cholesterol from
non-fertile eggs was found to be "sticky" and would adhere to the
vessel walls and accumulate. This has become an important issue to
me, and I will appreciate any help on the research. Does anyone
else remember this article? Is there any discussion of fertile vs.
non-fertile eggs? answer direct to baughers@mailaka.net Thank you

I am hatching button quail eggs with my neice, is there a simple
way of telling if eggs are fertile? I can't candle them, the shell
is dark/dense... what about putting them in warm water to test for
fertility?

i have a road island red and she has almost like a sandy type stuff
on her eggs now do you or any one know what this is or how to fix
this Thanks Frank in Va @ stoneexpresstrucking@yahoo.com

I bought chickens as babies in April and they are producing eggs
and I have grown to love them. Once problem though, some of them do
not have all their feathers. They have all butt the ones on their
rears. Someone told me mites so I dusted them and the area where
they stay. ANyway help would be greatly appreciated.

dear sir good day just i need to start poultry in ethiopia and i
hvae all the thing but i need to start with holland chichen so if
you are willing to del with me just give all the information please
thanks Nasireddin

How do I read the answers to the qurries made above. I am
interested in the shelf life to eggs at room temp. and in Fridge
Thanks Kunte

Great info here!!!

this page sucks

middle in beweene of 100 and 50.

what is the shelf life of eggs at room temperature and in the
fridge?

We had a sick chicken. Turns out she had Marek's Disease, and we
had her euthanized. Unfortunately, before we knew it was Marek's,
we fed the entire flock antibiotics for two days. How long before
we can eat the eggs again? (I am pregnant, so want to avoid any
potential residual antibiotics in the eggs.)

What is the shelf life of eggs? (at room temperature?0 What is the
shelf life of eggs stored in the fridge?

What is the shelf life of eggs? (at room temperature?0 What is the
shelf life of eggs stored in the fridge?

did my message go through 5 minutes ago?

I am surprised you did not test Eggland Eggs (King of Prussie, Pa.)
brand in your November nutrative investigation. It is the only
brand I can find in several local stores, all of which are part of
regional chains here.

I have a question is it legal to sell eggs at small businesses?

I want to feed my chickens organic feed where do I find it?

my hen has sat for almost 2 months on 11 eggs. Why are they not
hatching?
Mother Responds: If you do not have a rooster, the eggs will not
be fertile. After two months, whether the eggs were ever fertile or
not, they are no longer viable. it takes 21 days for them to
hatch.

3 months........i am starting my first chicken project......how
many should i start with.....my coop is 40 by 20.......i am so
excited.......

What is the shelf life of an egg in refrigeration?