How do farmers control whether a chicken lays an eating egg or a reproductive egg and how can they tell which kind is laid?
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All eggs are eating eggs unless you want to hatch more chickens. Hatching eggs require fertilization from a rooster. On commercial farms, hens that lay eating eggs rarely, if ever, are given any ‘private time’ with a rooster. They may bring in a rooster to give them motivation but not allow fertilization. My family raised chickens when I was a kid and we had a rooster. There is a visible difference when you crack open a fertilized eggs because the yolk and the egg white are joined together by threads or tubules. I don’t recall the eggs tasting any different (Summertime eggs were definitely better because the chickens were eating a lot of bugs. The yolk is a deeper yellow.)
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