This is not a scientific explanation of yolk development into an embryo chick moreover it's a lay observation by me about the size of the membrane coming off the yolk. I sometimes get asked if there's a physical difference between a fertilised and unfertilised chicken egg so I cracked a few of my own and compared them to unfertilised commercial eggs. It seems to me the membrane coming off the yolk is slightly larger in a fertilised egg than in a non-fertilised egg but essentially there's NO physical difference - I try to explain this in the video. Hey, but thanks for watching and supporting my content! ;) www.selfsufficientme.com/

@jellyballoo

5 жыл бұрын

The bullseye dot on the yolk is where the chicks forms from, unfertilised it’s just a dot, when it’s fertilised it’s a dot with a ring around it. The bit you were pointing out is the chalaza, there’s one on each side of the yolk to hold it in place.

@ArtistJWu

3 жыл бұрын

After doing a lot of researching on the internet, it seems everyone else is saying opposite of what you mentioned in the video. If the information in the video is incorrect, which many people below are saying it's incorrect, why haven't you removed the video or change the title? It's rather misleading. Lots of your other videos are helpful and I'll assume you didn't know when you made this video or didn't explain clearly enough. Let's improve and learn together.

@user-nr2vi7hh5l

Жыл бұрын

Kk

That's not an embryo, that's a chalazae which helps in suspending the yolk at the center of the egg.

unfortunately you are comp,etely wrong, a fertilized egg has a doughnut shaped white spot on the yolk, as an infertile egg has just a small white dot on the yolk. Everything else is exactly the same. The white cords on the sides of the yolk keep it in the center of the egg, those are not embryos. People please do your research.

@rijakunwar7655

8 жыл бұрын

I wanted to say the same

@bickbick5053

6 жыл бұрын

The doughnut you say is the blastoderm

@mikkimik6681

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@linmeiyun2437

4 жыл бұрын

I'm going to raise chickens in class for SCIENCE btw I'm in 4th grade

@CiroPerlix

4 жыл бұрын

I dont think you do science in 4th grade. Im in 6th grade and i have barley done any science...

Ok here is the actual facts. That white "membrane" is called the chalazae and it is to hold the yolk in place in the albumen ("white") of the egg. In the fertilized egg there will be what is called a blastoderm which is a white bullseye looking ring, and if the egg is unfertilized you will see a blastodisc which is just a white dot. The color of the yolks has nothing to do with fertilization. Simply one is free range chicken and the other is store bought, which may be why the yolks vary in color.

@Selfsufficientme

8 жыл бұрын

+hunt fish Nice explanation - thank you! Cheers :)

@galapagosbusinesses.8859

2 жыл бұрын

👍Now YOUR explanation is ACCURATE. 👍...

@wordswritteninred7171

2 жыл бұрын

@@Selfsufficientme why are you leaving up a video, that is nothing but false information? The world has enough idiots, without intentionally contributing to them.

@TheDlockett1

Жыл бұрын

But how does the egg become fertilized? Just over time basically cooking through the UV rays?

@anakatana777

Жыл бұрын

I started my hens on feed that's for laying hens and it has marigold extract which gives my chickens eggs a nice golden yolk.

I have to say your chicken eggs look better.

@Selfsufficientme

8 жыл бұрын

+Kayleigh Olivier Hi and thanks for commenting! Yes, I think so too and I know some people say the egg colour etc doesn't matter but I reckon it does. Cheers :)

@kayleigh4110

8 жыл бұрын

I agree with you there. 😄

@kayleigh4110

8 жыл бұрын

Im incubating 2 eggs now, im trying so hard to keep it 99F. But it's getting there. I think my eggs are about 10 or 8 days old. They are 1 silkie egg and 1 Normal hen egg.

@Selfsufficientme

8 жыл бұрын

Kayleigh Olivier If the temp fluctuates slightly + or - it shouldn't hurt anything so don't worry too much... Yes, keeping the temp as steady as possible at 99 is optimal but slight rises and drops or even prolonged periods slightly below or above usually only prolongs or speeds up hatching by a day. Best of luck!

He's wrong where the spot he pointed that is not where the chicken is gonna start it's life it's starts from the tiny spec on the yolk

Unfortunately you are so wrong. That white bulk material keeps the yolk suspended in the middle of the egg and does not turn into the chicken. The yolk is the egg and there will be a bulls eye white circle in it if it becomes fertilized.

@TheBestFanGirlEver

7 жыл бұрын

To clarify, the yolk is the food source for the developing embryo. So saying the yolk is the egg is technically still incorrect. But yes, there would be a white circle (or bullseye as you say) on the egg yolk and that is what will develop into a chicken.

@bickbick5053

6 жыл бұрын

Blastoderm is the white thing in the yolk

You missed the bulls eye.

On KZread - EVERYONE is an expert. That's why you the watcher need to be selective in which channels you watch/follow. Don't just believe what you see/hear on youtube. In all other respects however, this channel does provide useful information and is very interesting for those of us around the world who garden and raise chickens.

That is just the membrane that supports the yolk as the egg is forming. It has nothing to do with fertility of the egg.

@Colossians1-16

9 жыл бұрын

***** I was taught that the stringy thing is called the chalaza (sp?) and is an anchoring support for the yolk.

@escapefromny2012

8 жыл бұрын

You are correct. He should take this video down. Too much misinformation here.

Intro is way too long, especially for a video that's only 2 minutes long.

Your chickens and eggs look incredible. What do you feed your chickens?

You stated at 00:47 that you underutilized eggs will have a “membrane growth or an embryo growth...”. There is no such thing as an unfertilized embryo. You are pointing at the cheztize. There are two in all normal chicken eggs. They suspend the unfertilized yoke or the embryo if fertilization has occurred.

One of my hens laid their first egg and it's a rather small and brown one. Do they normally look that small like a golf ball when they are first laid? Their white Brahma chickens.

@Selfsufficientme

7 жыл бұрын

+Morgan Lemons yes that can be quite normal to have small or odd shaped eggs when chickens begin to lay for the first time as they mature the eggs will get larger and better developed.

Actually, that membrane has nothing to do with fertilization..... You want to look at the tiny white spot ON the yolk itself. If it's just a spot, not fertilized, if it looks like it has a ring around it or the trademark "bullseye" then it is fertilized.

You seem really nice but nearly everything you said is incorrect

The colour of your eggs as compared to the store bought eggs is vivid and noticeable. Here in the UK, Free Range means actually free to range through a small door somewhere in the hen house. The chooks might need to walk past a few thousand other chooks to get to it. It's a farce. Here I only buy Woodland Eggs. As they are ranged on fresh pasture or in a wood land setting eating bugs and scratching for "goodies". They're not as good as home eggs. Thanks for the heads up about the fertilisation too. We might need to keep a separate flock for selling/sharing and another for breeding. Didn't know the difference regardless of how technically correct you are. I get the spirit of what you're saying and so thanks. Cheers David

In 1975 our biology class incubated eggs from the supermarket. No one believed the teacher that the eggs would grow to hatch b4 the incubation. 29 hatched out of 32. Still pretty cool. Don't know if today's eggs are fertilized or not.

Wait your telling me the whole time I’ve been eating unborn baby chicken?

@GuitarStuffz

5 жыл бұрын

No

@sholos4478

4 жыл бұрын

The eggs you've been eating are unfertilized. Sorta of like eating sperm.

@WindsofChange

4 жыл бұрын

@@sholos4478 LOL, jokes on you. I have HATCHED chicken eggs from the store. There is no guarantee that they are unfertilized either.

@ljv2011

3 жыл бұрын

@@WindsofChange from what store??? Eggs in stores are refrigerated and a chick can’t develop in that environment........

@WindsofChange

3 жыл бұрын

@@ljv2011 Safeway...brown eggs...don't recall what exact brand. This was several years back. You're right, they can't DEVELOP in a refrigerated environment. But the way chicken eggs work is they don't develop, period, no matter what until the right temperature is applied to them. The blastocyst (essentially embryo at the cell dividing stage) is there and has divided several times before it leaves the hens body, then as it cools the blastocyst quits dividing and goes into a holding pattern waiting for the right heat to begin again. If the heat is not supplied eventually the cells of the blastocyst get too old and expire. I raise poultry here, and I have at times pulled an egg from my fridge a week or more old that I thought I wanted to put with the eating eggs and then later decided that I wanted to try to get a baby from it for various reasons (like a prize rooster died or was killed accidentally and I want to get as many babies from him with the eggs fertilized by him that exist- even if I have to pull them from the fridge). Alot, though not all, of the time it works fine- refrigeration lowers the viability on eggs somewhat and so does age of the egg increasingly. I apply the right heat and we're off to the races. The ones I hatched from the store I just grabbed for the heck of it to see if I COULD get anything to hatch...surprised the heck out of me when I examined them internally to see they were growing. I got two roosters and one hen...rhode island reds to be specific. If you do careful research you'll discover that even in the places that make white eggs....it is common for a late maturing rooster to get missed and put in with the hens and once they are installed in a building with 10's of thousands of birds, finding one in the bunch is more difficult that finding a needle in a 100 haystacks. As long as he is in there...he can breed the hens he has contact with. The ONLY way to ensure that you have unfertilized eggs is to have your own hens and NO roosters on the property or coming from others properties to "visit" with an ability to reach the hens.

u r wrong in so many ways! the bigger the white thing is, that actually suspends the yolk in the shell, the fresher the egg is. this is why it is bigger in ur fresh egg & smaller in the store bought. u should actually check ur facts before posting.

@Selfsufficientme

7 жыл бұрын

I made it quite clear this video wasn't about "facts" so I don't need a lecture from you who probably didn't even watch it in full.

It's funny. I've always considered our(australian) store-bought eggs to be much healthier then the pale yellow ones you see on american television because of how much darker the yolks are. But seeing how much darker your free-range ones are compared to even those onesreally brings to home that even those are not good enough.

You must be kidding and misleading other people since it is the germinal disc that matters on fertilized eggs.

Of course it shows me an ad for a McMuffin

Hi I am not sure if you know this but if it fertile the white dot in the egg has a ring around it like a bullseye if not then its just a white dot I found this out on a hatching page on facebook hope it helps

@Selfsufficientme

9 жыл бұрын

Emma Smith Hi Emma, I'm no expert on fertile eggs but I have noticed the ring on eggs which have been left to develop a few days. Thanks :)

@escapefromny2012

8 жыл бұрын

You are completely wrong Sir, about just about everything in your video. Clearly you're not an expert, you're not even an well informed novice.

Very interesting video. I found it by googling if fertilized chicken eggs were okay to eat. I was wondering because my neighbors have some free range chickens - 5 hens and 2 roosters. I know they have been eating the eggs they have found ever since the chickens arrived and I figured some had to be fertilized at least. No the chickens or roosters don't bother me. :) They might bother the other neighbors but not me. I used to do work on a large farm so the sound of the chickens actually brings back really fond memories. :D Because of that place I even like the sound of Guinea fowl and most people I have met do not like that sound. :P - Heidi

@Selfsufficientme

8 жыл бұрын

+BlackCat2 G'Day Heidi, and thanks for writing your thoughts. Yes, fertilised eggs are indeed safe to eat but I do recommend collecting them soon after laying otherwise if the hens are left to sit on the eggs for several days they will begin to form. What I tried to explain in the video was at the very early stage there's no real difference between a fertilised and unfertilised egg but on close inspection the membrane coming off the yolk might be slightly larger on a fertilised egg but as far as eating goes there's no difference. This is just my observation and not meant to be a scientific factually correct chicken anatomy lesson LOL Cheers :)

@escapefromny2012

8 жыл бұрын

Some people will actually eat a fully formed chick right out of the egg, just before it's hatched. Is that "okay" to eat? That depends on your moral and ethical values. I would not eat a fertilized egg that's begun to form into a chicken. The thought of it sickens me. I have a hard enough time eating unfertilized eggs.... by the way, the information he gives in this video is completely wrong. He's guessing. I would not take any advice from him on eggs at all for this reason. Not trying to be mean or put him down, just trying to keep misinformation to a minimum.

@herbzah5405

Жыл бұрын

@@escapefromny2012 thats just barbaric! To me🤗 GROSS TOO!

@herbzah5405

Жыл бұрын

@@Selfsufficientme the reason I came here was to see if it was OK and if that was what I thought I was looking at. It actually is a lot more than what you showed. But these came from grocery store. It bothered me though so, I threw it out. What it looked like was male human uh...seed? If you get my drift? Thats the other and just as gross reason I couldn't eat it

Tried to crack open an egg this morning and the shell would break, but the skin of it wouldn't. I had to poke it with a fork to pop it open. I was wondering if there's any difference in the shell between a fertilized egg and one that isn't fertilized.

@Selfsufficientme

7 жыл бұрын

I don't think in the early stages but as the chick develops the membrane would probably develop - just guessing... I'm no expert obviously. Cheers :)

is there any nutritional difference?

I want to make Balut but I don’t know where to buy fertilized eggs. Can anyone give me a source? I live in the Midwest of The U.S.A.

So there is no way to tell when collecting if an egg has been fertilized or not? I have a move in rooster and am getting ready to buy 4 hens after I get a coop built but if I lose one, I'd probably like to have some fertilized so I can replace any I may lose. How would I tell? Is there no visual queue?

@WindsofChange

4 жыл бұрын

Not without breaking them or incubating them. I suggest you collect up twice the amount of eggs as you want babies and start them incubating. By 5 days you can use a bright light put against the shell to light up the interior of the egg and if it is fertile and growing it will look like a red dot or like a little red spider in there. If so keep incubating, if not give another two days and look again...if not then...take the eggs out, eat them, feed them to your dog or back to the chicken as a scrambled egg or throw away.

great video

Well I just cracked open fertile eggs using the advice from the comments...

Thanks a lot.

What kind of rooster do you have?

Thank you, helpful, but.... I need to break an egg :(

wow your eggs do look A LOT better!!

@Selfsufficientme

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you mate! :)

What if the egg is brown color

I'm here because I debated with my wife about how eggs get made omw to the store today. 😅

I don't think the purchased eggs are free-range. They're most likely "coop and run" eggs. The yolks aren't orange enough to be free-range.

@Colossians1-16

9 жыл бұрын

Drakencoo All of my chickens are free range and I get a "range" of yolk colors amongst their eggs. Some are very dark orange, some light yellow. I think it depends on breed and the individual bird.

I've had my chickens for 2 years and have not gotten any fertilized eggs and I do have roosters and eggs

@WindsofChange

4 жыл бұрын

Trim their bottoms...if they are too fluffy it can interfere with the job getting done if you know what I mean.

How the hell am I here? I started with watching faze videos...

Can you hatch em if they are fertilised theoritically ?

@manurajsinghchauhan8803

2 жыл бұрын

Yes

Misleading title

Me speed running telling every comment here the egg was infertile

OMG I ATE A FERTILIZED EGG ;( pOoR BABY!!

@ashley._.6098

4 жыл бұрын

Gamer_Girl _72 Bro I boiled one and barely realized once it was done 😭😭😭😭😭😭 I also had the audacity to throw it outside because of how traumatized I was-

It's all about the white spot on the yolk

I still can't tell the difference

IS THERE A SPECIAL FEED FOR HENS TO GET THEM TO LAY EGGS?

why wasnt the egg fertilized?

Where can I buy fertilised chicken egg??

@raulgallardo2043

7 жыл бұрын

Monai Boonnantakul online

@anjilazad9041

6 жыл бұрын

Normally farmers don't sell fertile eggs in the market they keep them to hatch

Those white threads coming off the egg yolk will never become a chick.. they are strands that stabilise the yolk and keep the yolk in a central position in the egg. The chick starts developing on a spot on the yolk. Not those strands.

I did the rubber egg experiment on a Fertilised egg 0_o

@Selfsufficientme

9 жыл бұрын

Alpha Will Gaming! That would definitely be interesting to see!

so the eggs are fine to eat if you take them out of the pen in the morning? also is interbreeding ok or does it have any side effects?

@Selfsufficientme

8 жыл бұрын

Yes perfectly fine to eat - no difference to unfertilised eggs at all - but don't let the hens sit on them for more than 48 hours or it will start developing and then it can become a nasty surprise to crack for an omelet...

@fingrayz4101

8 жыл бұрын

lol ok thank you

I don't want to eat eggs. I don't want to kill a baby chicken :{ they are so cute. Why do humans underestimate chickens so much

nice.

Video starts from 0:20

Plz tell me wid conformity dat do unfertilised egg produce chicks?

@escapefromny2012

8 жыл бұрын

No, unfertilized eggs cannot produce chicks. That would be like a woman having a baby without a man's sperm. Impossible..... And if you want people to take you seriously online you should consider using full words, not ridiculous abbreviations. You're not texting with your buds, this is a forum where you're reaching out to and potentially conversing with people all over the world and most mature, educated people do not use textese or sms slang, especially if they want to be taken seriously and given any kind of respect.

My one died :(

The fertilized yolks are darker than the unfertilized yolks

@Selfsufficientme

7 жыл бұрын

Yes the fertilized yolks are from our own freerange hens and are darker because they eat a bigger range of foods including kitchen scraps; whereas, the store purchased unfertilized eggs were fed a commercial pellet feed (and maybe some grass) if they were let out to paddock. Often home eggs are much richer and better than commercial eggs. Cheers :)

So the difference for you is, the homegrown look nicer you reckon....okay then.

He explained the difference in looks but what makes one fertilized and the other one not fertilized?

@WindsofChange

4 жыл бұрын

He hasn't a clue what he's talking about...don't listen to a word of what he said.

Sorry but this is wrong. A fertilized egg has a little bulls-eye shaped light spot on the yolk, while a non-fertilized egg has just a light-colored dot with no outer rim. It can be hard to see but it will be there.

I watched this while eating fried eggs 🍳... that membrane thing was nasty 😄

@thanasisathanasi4965

2 жыл бұрын

Fry it a bit more !!!

I can't even watch the video because fertilized is spelled improperly.

@arbez101

3 жыл бұрын

Good call June, but your comment doesn't even require the adverb "even."

i see fertilized eggs yolk is much darker. not know if it is true, but i hear that unfertilized eggs are not so healthy and does not contain much proteins as fertilized.....

@amybooth899

10 жыл бұрын

I raise chickens (I'm in the US though) and my yolks change depending on what the chickens are eating. For example I had to lock my chickens up in their back run due to killer turkeys (didn't know that turkeys will attack and kill chickens till it happened). Their yolks are not as dark yellow now that they do not have access to the 1/4 acre to free range on. Whether the eggs are fertile or not does not change the color of the yolks of my eggs. The only time I see changes in my egg yolks is when their free range area and or amount of time to free range changes.

@amybooth899

10 жыл бұрын

***** I'm setting some of our eggs and some neighbors eggs tonight in the incubator. My first time trying to hatch out any eggs. All of my eggs are lighter when candled. Fingers crossed that I get some to hatch!

@amybooth899

10 жыл бұрын

***** The worst part is the turkeys were raised from one week old with the cockerel they killed! After doing some research I found out that BBW (hatchery board breasted whites) are known to do this but most people have butchered them before they do because they are meant to be eaten. They are not able to reproduce on their own and typically die of heart failure due to being genetically bred to grow fast and be butchered out by 4-5 months of age. At four months mine now all weigh over 22 lbs (dressed out weight). Heritage birds (for the US) however are not like that and take longer to mature. They also can reproduce on their own.

@seepaulrun113

9 жыл бұрын

Not so about nutritional value. Who can find research to say otherwise?

@escapefromny2012

8 жыл бұрын

and cause cancer

You seem to think the yolk turns into the chick, when in fact it's the white that turns into the chick, the yolk is food for the chick, the yolk is not the chick. Cheers!

@astralpurpose1344

5 жыл бұрын

Lewis H other way around

@jrob8764

5 жыл бұрын

I don't see why people don't google shit if they are going to pretend they know what they are talking about, Lewis google is your friend dummy.

are fertilised eggs dager for our health??

This is not correct.

wwwooooolllliiiieeeesss

my supermarket eggs are fertilized I have the inside egg in the jar right now

@Goldi-Luc

6 жыл бұрын

An-akwardperson Inside egg? What do u mean? Also what happened did anything grow?

But I heard people saying that you could hatch the ones from the supermarket

@serranojavier99

7 жыл бұрын

99 Peacock no

@alexandrahenderson4368

6 жыл бұрын

I don’t think I’m the US many companies would sell fertilized eggs. Edit [It would anger a lot of Vegans.]

@WindsofChange

4 жыл бұрын

I have done it...hatched store chicken eggs

is it ok to eat a fetilised egg?

@Selfsufficientme

8 жыл бұрын

+warmaxxx Yes, no problem at all. Cheers :)

@escapefromny2012

8 жыл бұрын

Some people will actually eat a fully formed chick right out of the egg, just before it's hatched. Is that "okay" to eat? That depends on your moral and ethical values. I would not eat a fertilized egg that's begun to form into a chicken. The thought of it sickens me. I have a hard enough time eating unfertilized eggs.... by the way, the information he gives in this video is completely wrong. He's guessing. I would not take any advice from him on eggs at all for this reason. Not trying to be mean or put him down, just trying to keep misinformation to a minimum.

@WindsofChange

4 жыл бұрын

yep, do it allll the time...

@WindsofChange

4 жыл бұрын

@@escapefromny2012 How do you know that they are unfertilized?

No anti-abortion comments?

omg... obvious illuminati, but whatever

The white dot on the yolk is the baby btw, lmao sperm in a yolk

Just pass the bacon

Fertilized eggs mean theres rooster semen in the egg?

This is the only video of yours I haven’t liked- because it seems rather wrong to eat an embryo.😣

@babyblue28

3 жыл бұрын

Eh, as long as it’s unfertilized theres no harm. The only real unborn we need to focus on caring for is the human unborn. But yeah, chickens are pretty cool I guess

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. - John 3:16 from the Bible ❤

@TeaLurker

2 жыл бұрын

Cool

@acron6866

Жыл бұрын

this has nothing to do with the video. please learn some respect and social awareness

😂😂

Spelled fertilized dude

@Selfsufficientme

8 жыл бұрын

+derrick ingram Not in Australian/UK English it's with an "s" :)

@danoia4

8 жыл бұрын

Self Sufficient Me not in the usa

@georgereston

6 жыл бұрын

Americans are nothing if they're not parochial. lol

@RKSDT

6 жыл бұрын

It's called English, as in from England. In England we say fertilised.

@harrym1862

6 жыл бұрын

Self Sufficient Me Umm, no, it's still fertilized i live in England

Free range does nothing

@Selfsufficientme

7 жыл бұрын

Except: give a better life for the hens, make better tasting eggs, keep the pests down on your property, and overall makes me feel good ;)

@Popikawaii

6 жыл бұрын

Doesn't make better tasting eggs, and in fact causes the eggs to have more potential bacteria than non-free range.

Fertilised heheheCan't take this video seriously now

@escapefromny2012

8 жыл бұрын

I believe that's how they spell it outside the U.S.

This video gives misinformation. Please delete it.

You guys are eating menstruation waste of hen 🤢🤢🤢🤢 Be a vegetarian

You just killed a life

@escapefromny2012

8 жыл бұрын

You kill life every day, even if you don't eat animals, so you should not be accusing anyone of killing. So why not educate yourself..... If the brain is not formed in an embryo there is no thought or feelings. End of discussion.

@Goldi-Luc

6 жыл бұрын

The egg is on pause, it doesn't start growing until you start incubating it, then it's alive.

@alexandrahenderson4368

6 жыл бұрын

And it was delicious