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You do need a rooster to have fertilized eggs. You may not know if they are fertile simply by looking at them, but it doesn’t matter anyway because they are perfectly fine to eat. It is true that a hen intending to hatch eggs will lay an egg every day or so until she has a “clutch” of them to sit on. When she begins to sit in earnest with out leaving they will all begin to develop at once. They will hatch on the same day 21 days later.
Feel like hitting myself in the head... light dawns on dense mountain. NOW I get it. You can eat either, so it really does matter if it's fertile or not. I really had not properly understood this before. I had read the helpful article on the Home page link "Interesting facts about chicken eggs," but your answering this question is what helped me to understand. Thank you.