I know the chances of this working is very very low but its an exciting and fun little experiment! I am currently in Denmark and bought some organic free range chicken eggs. There are 6 and they were refrigerated so this should be interesting! Right now I have them sitting to reach about room...
I was just thinking and got curious who had tried these and what their success rate was if they did. I know I’ve read about a few people on here trying it but can’t remember much details and would love to hear from others too. Of course I won’t be trying this as I don’t have the room atm and...
This boy hatched from my washed and refrigerated eggs incubation experiment last spring. He's the only one of the 19 chicks that had this coloring - the others were clearly part Easter Egger (muffs and beards, hens lay blue/pink/green eggs), mostly reddish coloring (a few buff and a couple...
I am wanting to put a couple of dozen eggs in the fridge and would like to hear suggestions from you them there experts on this;). I prefer to have a container which is covered/sealed, stack-able, and holds 12 eggs each. (yes, I have looked on amazon...but still wanting your input if you...
I've traditionally only incubated unwashed eggs (poultry and waterfowl), and wouldn't have even considered trying to incubate refrigerated eggs...until I got my hands on some I really liked and after I read a number of BYC threads that recounted successful hatches, including with refrigerated...
I had two of my favorite hens slaughtered by a break in, either by neighbors dog or coyote. These two were the oldest of my flock and best layers. I have about 10 more spring pullets that laying too and one EE roo. The older hens layed larger darker colored eggs, (golden laced and a Maran)...
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I may be excited and putting the cart before the horse here .. but the past couple days, my EE hen has been hogging both the nest boxes and filling them with feathers. She's been so ornery to the other gals, they've started laying in the floor. She puffs up and grumbles and...