Can we eat incubated infertile eggs?

[jumbocoturnix]

Or toss in trash can? Boil for quail food? Thanks!

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

You "could", yes, but the issue would be more a matter of "should" or "want to". How far into the incubation period are they? Personally, were I to decide not to continue incubation to the end I would simply dispose of the eggs - especially if there has been some intervening period between the ending of active incubation and the present.

 

[Pork Pie]

Personally, were I to decide not to continue incubation to the end I would simply dispose of the eggs - especially if there has been some intervening period between the ending of active incubation and the present.

Me too.

 

[jumbocoturnix]

Less than 10 days. I thought so too, but tossing away 10+ eggs is a waste. I recently candled them and found most were infertile. Should I add them to the compost?

 

[rebrascora]

I would scramble them and feed them to your other poultry.

I've had infertile eggs that have gone the full 21+ days with a broody hen and I've cracked them open to check on them and chickens have come along and eaten it. They didn't smell bad even after that length of time and the chickens obviously thought they were fair game.
Plenty of broody hens eat eggs that get broken. so it is a natural occurrence.
Good luck with your remaining hatch.

 

[Sill]

If they smell bad and the yolk disintegrates when the contents are put into a bowl I toss them. If they don't stink and the yolk seems intact I cook them and feed them to the dogs.

 

[June18]

I would scramble them and feed them to your other poultry.

I've had infertile eggs that have gone the full 21+ days with a broody hen and I've cracked them open to check on them and chickens have come along and eaten it. They didn't smell bad even after that length of time and the chickens obviously thought they were fair game.
Plenty of broody hens eat eggs that get broken. so it is a natural occurrence.
Good luck with your remaining hatch.

I read you could cook them and feed them to your chickens! I had 12 hand it was day 18 and I cracked and scrambled them with the shells and my chickens gobble them up

 

[Nabiki]

I read you could cook them and feed them to your chickens! I had 12 hand it was day 18 and I cracked and scrambled them with the shells and my chickens gobble them up

FYI, this thread is 9 years old and the person you're replying to hasn't logged in in over 5 years, so they probably won't reply.

 

[Susan Skylark]

Why do people keep asking this?! And eggs weren’t even $9 a dozen nine years ago!

 

[pac]

I think I just asked this myself.
My thinking was I don't like wasting stuff. And I had never eaten a quail egg. So was curious in that respect, too.
But I also had my doubts if an egg under that amount of heat for two weeks would still be OK to eat.

Thus the question