Omelet wrote:

> In article >,
> Kathleen > wrote:
>
>
>>>So how do you explain blood spots in eggs where no rooster was available?
>>>
>>
>>I can't explain it because I've never found a bloody spot in an egg that
>>came from somewhere (like a supermarket by way of a factory farm) where
>>there was no rooster available.
>
>
> The thing is, in order for a fertilized egg to turn up with a visible
> embryo, the egg would have had to be incubated for a few days. 24 hours
> and all you see is a slightly larger whitish round spot on the yolk.
>
> Most blood spots are not developing chicks. Trust me. ;-)
> And they are rare to zilch on grocery store eggs due to the
> sorting/grading process.
>
> Ah, here we go:
>
> http://www.georgiaeggs.org/pages/bloodspots.html

Cool! Thanks.
>
>>>>People are just weird sometimes. It's okay to eat eggs, it's okay to
>>>>eat chickens, but somehow the mid-point, a fertilized egg, is icky.
>>>
>>>
>>>I'm ok with fertilized eggs (ate them for years) but I'll have to pass
>>>on Baluts, thanks. ;-)
>>>
>>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balut
>>
>>I'd pass on that too, myself. Although my JRT, disgusting little
>>egg-sucker that he is, would no doubt enjoy Balut as much as he did the
>>contents of the nest of a hapless, shore-dwelling, probably endangered,
>>bird.
>>
>>MMMmm... Crunchy, chewy and juicy all at once.
>
>
> JRT's are interesting dogs. <lol>

Yeah. For the most part they are not Wishbone, or My Dog Skip, or
whatever that dog's name on Frasier was. They are bred to go to
ground.... To follow quarry into its own pitch dark lair and do battle.
They are yappers, front door doingers, cat killers, diggers, escape
artists and toddler snappers They are not easy dogs to keep.

But Cooper, my JRT (aka "the Spanish Inquisition", aka "that damned
jack") allows my flyball club's B-team to dominate the division they
compete in. Three big, slow dogs loping along, and your adversaries
start to relax, passing a little wider, thinking, "We've got this one in
the bag". Nobody expects a sub-five-second height dog on a division 4
or 5 team.

Hence the nickname, from an old Monty Python skit.. Character
responding indignantly to queries upon arriving home late:
"Well, I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition!"

Antique Catholic priest leaps through doorway, brandishing a crucifix,
shouts:
"NO ONE EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!!!"

> My Lab Chows will eat eggs whole, shell and all!

My BC, Zane, has stolen eggs off of the counter a couple of times. My
bad. I forget he has the amazing elastic extendo-neck and prehensile
lips. He dropped them on the floor, licked up as much as he could and
left the shells to glue themselves to the pergo.

Scully, the othr BC has eaten at least a couple of hardboiled eggs,
shell and all. This usually happens on Easter morning, and the egg is
gobbled down at a dead run in order to avoid sharing with jealous
housemates.