➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[Kiki]

Know what? Something just hit me tonight that we haven’t even mentioned on here yet - if we did I missed it. This says a lot about the tenacity of a little embryo, doesn’t it?

Think of it - all of the perfectly understandable concern hatchers have at a power outage lasting a few hours, or a broody being off the nest for longer than we think she should be, or even opening the incubator long enough to hand turn eggs.....blown out of the water by this experimental odyssey!

I mean, this store ordered the eggs after incubation had started, or so I think I read on here somewhere. Those eggs were selected, put into cartons, taken to the store in a truck or some such and for who knows how long a trip. Then they were put on the shelf until The Happy Clicker came along. After that they went home with her, another car ride, and it took her a bit of time, I’m sure, to get around to candling them while she put other stuff away or whatever. So that means those eggs, already along in their development, continued to do what they had to continue doing - growing, moving around, little hearts just beating away as if they’d been under Mama Duck without interruption.

Ain’t that something??

I think you missed the post where I put them in my refridgerator for a few hours after I got home from the store with them.

 

[User395221]

I didn't think these things were sold either...I found out Friday.

I searched after I posted that. The first result was a petition to get them banned.

 

[Kiki]

OMG! I'M AN ALIEN???? I HAD NO IDEA!!!

No goofball you are a BYCer. Aliens are the non Bycers...all the people reading along without an account here.

 

[Kiki]

I searched after I posted that. The first result was a petition to get them banned.

Is it bed time for you yet? I should not be awake right now.

 

[Kiki]

Kiki you inspired me to try to ghetto rig my incubator that I lost tubing and the power supply for. found the tubing in my spray bottle was long enough and almost thick enough to fit into my brinsea mini II eco so I'm going to silicone it in and turns out my hubby's old face shaver plug fits into the the power supply area and I have it running and getting up to temp on that haha. Now I can move some of the growing eggs over to that to either keep incubating or to hatch in!

Sweet. I will need to see pictures of all the macgyvering!

 

[Kiki]

What? But, you're calling them aliens. View attachment 1312855
And what's wrong with calling him a drug dealer. That's what he looks like.

They ARE aliens though.

 

[User395221]

Is it bed time for you yet? I should not be awake right now.

No, it's 5.30 in the afternoon.

Once you turn the telly or the computer on, it's harder to go back to sleep when you wake early. And you've got Donald and Daisy to worry about.....

 

[Mysimplewyominglife]

Sweet. I will need to see pictures of all the macgyvering!

I'll try to post pics. also any one want a dumb chocolate lab he his 2 in april? idiot just chewed the macgyvered power plug. Good news tho I found my old laptop power plug and thats working now. stupid dog I mean look at him lol

 

[Kiki]

Today I need to remind everyone how important it is to start with a thermostat. What in the world was I thinking for the first few days? I can not stress how helpful a thermostat is in an experiment like this. Life changing.

 

[Kiki]

No, it's 5.30 in the afternoon.

Once you turn the telly or the computer on, it's harder to go back to sleep when you wake early. And you've got Donald and Daisy to worry about.....