Author Topic: its now against the law to sell fertile eggs. (Read 17917 times)

sandy · « **Reply #30 on:** July 06, 2009, 11:06:34 pm »

H&S get good money, a well paid job!! i wish I had the training and I would be well off....

shetlandpaul · « **Reply #31 on:** July 07, 2009, 08:42:49 pm »

Quote from: Rosemary on July 06, 2009, 09:26:27 pm

Not sure the hens have a chance to think about it - or maybe that's just Hector's technique.

yes they are not the most romantic of birds

Tullywood Farm · « **Reply #32 on:** July 12, 2009, 04:40:37 pm »

Occasionally you do hear of people hatching shop bought eggs!.
The Eggs for sale in supermarkets are not supposed to be fertile as some bright spark came up with the idea that the sperm from a cockerel is a foreign body rather than being part of a natural process called LIFE!.
I will continue to keep a cockerel and I think he will continue to do his Job.
Luckily for me he can not read anything not even Country Smallholder even though he likes to look at the Birds!.

Kind regards
Joe

northfifeduckling · « **Reply #33 on:** July 14, 2009, 11:26:43 pm »

have just watched "What really is in our food" - now this makes more sense. they showed half incubated eggs sold on a grand scale for processed foods...

shetlandpaul · « **Reply #34 on:** July 15, 2009, 09:06:40 am »

the maggots were a nice touch to.

northfifeduckling · « **Reply #35 on:** July 15, 2009, 06:44:21 pm »

they puzzled me a bit, how did they fit in with eggs, fertilized or not??

shetlandpaul · « **Reply #36 on:** July 15, 2009, 07:14:08 pm »

Quote from: northfifeduckling on July 14, 2009, 11:26:43 pm

have just watched "What really is in our food" - now this makes more sense. they showed half incubated eggs sold on a grand scale for processed foods...

it would make odd baked goods.

northfifeduckling · « **Reply #37 on:** July 15, 2009, 09:35:25 pm »

Glad I now produce most of my own food, lol, don't really want to know what I ate before!! Some extra protein??

shetlandpaul · « **Reply #38 on:** July 15, 2009, 10:21:20 pm »

they were filming this. so one has to ask was this faked for the filming. any firm doing that and willing to be filmed would be shut in a second. even the worst quality control would have detected the maggots and half formed chicks. by the way were did the chick come from. i thought all commercial flock were female.

northfifeduckling · « **Reply #39 on:** July 16, 2009, 09:10:40 pm »

remember, this shot was supposedly taken in Italy. Maybe the eggs were imported from the Philipines? All EU produced products can be sold here, like they can be in cakes and what have it as processed egg. the sentiment was that they use rubbish to sell us in the supermarkets, nothing new there, all in all a good program for newbies, lol. I wonder if the informant in the meat industry is still alive...