Another - My Chicken Laid a Boiled Egg - mystery post

[Hellomylittleladies]

Are they cooked yet?

 

[Auntiejessi3]

Weather tis nobler in the mind to suffer the Celsius and Fahrenheit of outrageous fortune, Or to take wings against a pen of cockerels...

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I grew up in Chandler, when I was in 6th grade it got to 122. So I absolutely know how hot it can get there, lol. This is a very interesting experiment, thank you for indulging us

 

[ChickyCh00k]

This thread just made my morning!
I almost spit my coffee!

 

[Skatchkins]

All right, fellow Chicken Tenders. I have some data today. It was overcast here till noonish. Photos taken at 4pm. I missed the sun directly on the reinactment scene victims. I was still taken aback at one result in particular.

Sun

Birthing box in the Cajun bayou shack coop.

Next the top of the compost pile (post direct sunlight), because I'm saving the what-the-what for last.

Ladies and gentlehens, the temperature in the direct sunlight "above" the pile, taken on the pallet wall:

I had to double check with the analog cooking temp gauge because I thought the digital had gone wonky.
Now, I cannot attest if the neighbor separator block wall is the real culprit here on the high reading. I can only reiterate where this location is in the sun. I will double check tomorrow.

 

[kcan2]

Whoa! That last temp reading is deserving of a flaming face emoji, which is not an optional reaction.

Interested to see the internal status of your reenactment victims when their merciless outdoor inferno cook time is complete!

 

[FunClucks]

Watching with great interest! That temperature is insane!!!

 

[amee6730]

Anxiously waiting the results!

 

[JedJackson]

Who needs a stove? I think an egg could easily have cooked in its shell under those conditions.

 

[Happy Novogens]

As one who shares the same climate (albeit on the west side of Phoenix) I'm enjoying this experiment.

As an aside, I found a stray egg outside our run. (The flock is let out a couple hours each day.) It was found in the shade of an elevated garden bed, that is moistened 3x a day from drip running through the garden. I cracked it open to find it had already started developing-- no brooder required.

 

[FunClucks]

Now I want to see an egg hatch on its own - no broody mama or incubator required!

Yea, I know that wouldn't work, the egg won't turn itself and therefore won't develop properly, but man, that it even develops as much as it does is crazy to think about.