• Question: If you have scrambled egg is it really scrambled baby bird?

    Asked by dandelion to Mike, Tim, Tom on 5 Jul 2012.
    • Photo: Tim Stephens

      Tim Stephens answered on 5 Jul 2012:

      I think that the egg is mostly food for the baby bird to feed on as it grows.
      Before you were born, you got food from your mum through the placenta, but a baby bird has to have all its food in the egg because it’s outside its mum after its been laid.

    • Photo: Tom Lister

      Tom Lister answered on 5 Jul 2012:

      Usually the eggs you buy are from hens that are not kept with cockerels, so they have not been fertilised. Even when fertilised, the hen has to keep the eggs warm for a while before the cell begins to divide and a chick begins to develop.

      So for many reasons, you are not eating scrambled chicken (or poussin)

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