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Try local organic grocery stores and farmers' markets to get fertile eggs. You will do best with fresh local fertile eggs, but if you can't get them, consider getting fertile eggs that have been shipped a short distance. Take a look at the buy-sell-swap posts on this forum, too.

Yes, Vital Farms admits they do not keep roosters. Their eggs won't be fertile. Look for cartons of eggs marked 'fertile.' The mark may be in small print. Rock Island fertile eggs may be fertile, but they have a low rate of viability because of washing. Safeway carries them. Trader Joe's...

On day 22 I culled my eggs that weren't developing. There were tiny embryos in four eggs (two Rock Island and one from the shipped eggs), looks like they stopped developing a week ago. This leaves me with 9 eggs, all from Red Rose Half-Acre farm. These were eggs that did not get washed. Today is...

It's day 7 for my eggs; how the time has dragged! The multi-color eggs from CommunityMarket/RedRose Half Acre are showing some signs of life. There are little red veins in a couple of eggs that don't have completely opaque shells. A lot of these eggs look like Marans and are hard to candle...

On April 9th I set 36 eggs; a dozen Rock Island fertile brown eggs from Andy's market, a dozen multi-color fertile eggs from Red Rose Half Acre farm (the Community Market sells these), and a dozen sage green Ameraucana eggs shipped from North Carolina to California. They will begin hatching on...

Bravo! (Regarding Blooie's resolve to candle on Day 4, and her poem).

My shipped eggs from North Carolina arrived today; none were broken or cracked, but candling indicated to me that a lot of the air cells were rolling. These air cells all looked bigger than they ought to, for a week-old egg. Anyway, they and the grocery store eggs are all numbered and in the...

Pheasants and chickens have the same number of chromosomes, so their offspring are not pathetic unviable creatures like chicken-turkey hybrids. The male first generation cheasants are usually fertile, the female F1 cheasants are sterile. The male F1 cheasants could be bred back to chickens to...

Sounds like you have access to some other kind of Rock Island birds out there. I will let everyone know what (if anything) hatches out of my latest Rock Island carton, it will probably go in the 'bator Monday so I don't have to do a staggered hatch.

I'm so sorry that this happened. Perhaps next time you incubate, you can keep the incubator in a locked room, because I've read other stories here about kids messing around with controls and spoiling hatches. It seems to be a common occurrence.

I just found another grocery store source for fertile eggs in Sonoma county, California. It is Community Market, an organic store in Sebastopol and Santa Rosa. They have a brand of fertile eggs called Red Rose Half Acre, from a farm in Windsor, 20 miles or so from Santa Rosa. These fertile...

For the first time I bought hatching eggs from eBay. They are being shipped from a farm in North Carolina, by a seller with 97% positive feedback, someone who sells a lot of purebred chicken eggs as well as quail and pheasant eggs, at low prices. It occurred to me to do an experiment by starting...

I would add water if the humidity went below 35% or so, but I wasn't very consistent about it. The manual for my incubator suggests keeping humidity around 50-60% until day 18 then boosting it by adding water.

I did some searching to find out what brands of grocery store eggs might be fertile. Rock Island (brown eggs which hatch Red Star chicks) sold at Lucky's, Safeway, Whole Foods and many other stores. These eggs are produced in Petaluma, California. Nutrifresh (white eggs which hatch white...