Fertilized Chicken Eggs

[armani01]

Farmers used to hold the egg up in candle light to spot the embryo and blood spots. These days, special lights are available for this purpose. Using these lights, one can look through the egg to see if it is fertilized. This is known as candling eggs. During the candling of the eggs, a fertilized egg will appear opaque. Once the egg has been cracked open, fertilized chicken eggs look like any other unfertilized egg with the exception that the white circle in the egg yolk will be more pronounced and the yolk will also have tiny red lines running all along its surface.

[electra]

Collecting eggs every morning was a chore no one wanted.

When I was 4 or 5, I used to get a nickel for finding as nest... as I learned a bit, I could gather the single eggs and "build" that nest myself, and by the time I figured out how my parrents could tell my nests from the real thing (size matters), the game was over and it simply became a morning chore, sans the nickel.