Study Chullin folio 64A with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
fish embryos, i.e., fish eggs found in the fish’s innards.
The Talmud continues: And it is taught in a baraita about eggs that these are the signs of bird eggs: Any egg that narrows at the top and is rounded, so that one of its ends is rounded and the other one of its ends is pointed, is kosher. If both of its ends are rounded or both of its ends are poin
The Talmud responds: No, it is necessary if the eggs have already been cut and one cannot know their original shape. The Talmud challenges: But let him inspect the yolk and the albumen, to see which is inside and which is outside. The Talmud responds: The baraita deals with a case where the eggs a
The Talmud counters: But in a case like this, where the eggs are mixed, may we buy eggs from them? Isn’t it taught in another baraita: One may sell the egg of a tereifa bird to a non-Jew only if it is mixed in a bowl; therefore, one may not buy eggs mixed in a bowl from them, because they may be f
Rather, R' Zeira said: The signs of a kosher egg are not valid by Torah law. As, if you do not say so, one encounters difficulty with that which Rav Asi says: There are 8 birds whose kosher status is uncertain. Why is there uncertainty? Let one inspect their eggs for the signs listed in the barai