For those of you with ever-questioning young children, I hope this helps you answer some awkward questions raised over your egg soldiers at breakfast…
You can eat fertilised eggs, although the eggs you buy from supermarkets will be unfertilised as the hens will not have lived with a cockerel. The only difference will be that if you incubate the fertilised egg, it will turn into a chick, but if you incubate an unfertilised egg, it will not.
Don't worry, you are not eating a baby chick inside your egg!
Try googling "egg experiments" to do with your kids. Have fun!
I am afraid I am not qualified enough to advise you on which came first…
