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- 6 years agoFavorite Answer
Technically its unfertilized eggs no different to a human so its actually chicken period
- ckngbbblsLv 76 years ago
Been there is wrong.
Farmers don't keep the roosters away from the hens, they don't keep roosters at all becuase they are NOT needed to get chickens to lay eggs.
NO egg, fertilized or not is EVER a chicken fetus. Its also NOT a chicken period.
Birds aren't built that way.
A fertilized egg has the potential to be a chick but a very special set of circumstances has to happen first.
Until that time, its just an egg.
- Anonymous6 years ago
Eggs that you buy in the stores are not fetuses.
Chickens will lay eggs as long as there is a rooster nearby .. the hens and rooster can be kept apart by fences so they don't mate.
The farmers keep the roosters away from the hens. The eggs are not fertilized (bad business for egg farmers ... no one wants to crack open their egg and find a fetus in it).
So the eggs are like empty baby cribs, so to speak.
You could leave a hen sitting on them and nothing would ever grow in them. Although sooner or later the egg would start to rot.
Of course, wild birds who mate .. their eggs WILL be fertilized. But then you aren't getting your eggs by climbing trees in the forest and robbing nests, are you?
Source(s): University degree in science. Plus, at one time in my life, I lived on a small acreage and kept a flock of chickens. - mrh-slosLv 76 years ago
No they are not. Eggs sold for eating have not been fertilised so do not contain an embryonic chicken,
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