On 12/1/2016 04:16 Janet wrote:

> In article >,
> says...
>>
>> On Mon, 11 Jan 2016 09:22:51 -0500, Gary > wrote:
>>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Mon, 11 Jan 2016 08:56:50 -0500, Gary > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >From what I understand, the eggs we buy at the grocery stores are
>> >> >unfertilized eggs and would never grow a chick.
>> >>
>> >> Those cockerels are busy guys Even El Chapo knows that
>> >
>> >Looking this up....
>> >
>> >"since eggs sold for human consumption are unfertilized,"
>> >
>> >from: http://freefromharm.org/eggs-what-ar...really-eating/
>>
>> I didn't mean the fleck of red one associates with a fertilised egg
>> but rather a whitish, stringy thing that seems to keep the yolk in
>> place. In many recipes this is referred to and it says to remove.
>
> That red fleck appears in unfertilised eggs; it's from a harmless
> small rupture of a bloodvessel in the hen, that happened as the egg
> formed. It's NOT a developing foetus.
>
> The string things (there's one at each end) are called chalazae and
> are just anchors to hold the yolk in the centre of the shell. It's NOT a
> chicken umbilical cord :-)

It's also quite unlikely that chickens in a commercial egg
laying context would suddenly walk into a rooster and go for a quickie
in the haystack.

--
Bruce