My Confession a Month Later

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Tony

Tony

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Jan 16, 2008
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Hi All,
I feel the need to come clean on some "unusual" steps I took in preparing my eggs for my incubator. lol
I was an eggwasher AND I incubated eggs that were outside frozen and then cleaned by rubbing the dirt off in the snow on the ground. I also incubated eggs that had been in the refrigerator for a few days. Ahhhh!!! I feel better now that I confessed. lol
For the record...Yes they DID all hatch. Do I recommend these actions for someone else to do as well??? Hmmm...I don`t know, it`s up to you.
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Have a great day!!! Tony
 
Well, 20 lashes for you, Tony, LOL!
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Eggs that are in less than ideal conditions often hatch. I'd say you didn't do it the 'textbook' way. Glad they hatched, though. BTW, I ain't confessin' to nuttin'!
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Hey....We two are chickens addicts can't get rid of us
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we know too much
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It makes sense to me that they hatched. I've been thinking about all the do's and don'ts of hatching, and come to the conclusion that if all these hatching "rules" were true, eggs would NEVER hatch in nature. No egg is going to be super clean, no egg is going to stay dry if it rains, etc etc. I know not all eggs hatch out in nature, but they must be able to take a bit of a beating and some changes in variables from the elements of the natural world in order to keep the species surviving... Nature is a lovely, complex system.
 
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Tony!! How COULD you!??? Ahhh, the true confessions of a chicken lover!
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Ohhh, no, not me! Im not confessing, ( or admitting) to anything....you cant prove it, I wasn't there...I was...umm...in the coop! Yeah! THATS it!
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