Arizona Chickens

[BlueBaby]

The 2 EE chick's are now out there in the grow-out pen. I moved them out there yesterday. I have to get the brooder in the house cleaned out now, so it will be ready for this next hatch that will be starting this weekend.

 

[Lark60]

Well I have finished my experiment of hatching fresh and refrigerated fresh eggs. My sister gave me a carton of 12 eggs that were washed and refrigerated (collected over the prior 3 days) and 5 eggs she collected that same morning. I was curious about the stories of hatching refrigerated eggs and setting washed eggs. So I chose 5 eggs from the carton and set them with the 5 fresh eggs.
I incubated them in my DYI cardboard incubator and hatched them in my Janoel12 incubator (to better control the humidity)
Here are my results: 9 eggs fully matured. 4 eggs needed assistance due to malpositioned chicks (2 fresh eggs and 2 refrigerated/washed eggs) 3 of the 4 assisted hatched chicks died within hours of hatching (but I count the 1 survivor as a win for assistance with the hatching). 2 chicks hatched with residual yolk and needed to be kept in a cup till the yolk was absorbed. One each of the fresh and refrigerated eggs, both have survived.

So I have 6 viable chicks. The one quitter was from the fresh eggs.

Washing and refrigerating eggs does not seem to affect the ability to incubate the eggs. Though these eggs were no more than 3 days old before being set in the incubator, the hatch results were the same as the fresh eggs I set in the batch.

 

[cavemanrich]

Well I have finished my experiment of hatching fresh and refrigerated fresh eggs. My sister gave me a carton of 12 eggs that were washed and refrigerated (collected over the prior 3 days) and 5 eggs she collected that same morning. I was curious about the stories of hatching refrigerated eggs and setting washed eggs. So I chose 5 eggs from the carton and set them with the 5 fresh eggs.
I incubated them in my DYI cardboard incubator and hatched them in my Janoel12 incubator (to better control the humidity)
Here are my results: 9 eggs fully matured. 4 eggs needed assistance due to malpositioned chicks (2 fresh eggs and 2 refrigerated/washed eggs) 3 of the 4 assisted hatched chicks died within hours of hatching (but I count the 1 survivor as a win for assistance with the hatching). 2 chicks hatched with residual yolk and needed to be kept in a cup till the yolk was absorbed. One each of the fresh and refrigerated eggs, both have survived.

So I have 6 viable chicks. The one quitter was from the fresh eggs.

Washing and refrigerating eggs does not seem to affect the ability to incubate the eggs. Though these eggs were no more than 3 days old before being set in the incubator, the hatch results were the same as the fresh eggs I set in the batch.

Great on your experiment...
I have read on such experiments of peeps hatching store purchased eggs. Most of the success was with Trader Joe's Eggs, because they came from free-range hens that had a rooster for a companion.
All the Corporate Battery Hens lay infertile eggs.

 

[BlueBaby]

Well I have finished my experiment of hatching fresh and refrigerated fresh eggs. My sister gave me a carton of 12 eggs that were washed and refrigerated (collected over the prior 3 days) and 5 eggs she collected that same morning. I was curious about the stories of hatching refrigerated eggs and setting washed eggs. So I chose 5 eggs from the carton and set them with the 5 fresh eggs.
I incubated them in my DYI cardboard incubator and hatched them in my Janoel12 incubator (to better control the humidity)
Here are my results: 9 eggs fully matured. 4 eggs needed assistance due to malpositioned chicks (2 fresh eggs and 2 refrigerated/washed eggs) 3 of the 4 assisted hatched chicks died within hours of hatching (but I count the 1 survivor as a win for assistance with the hatching). 2 chicks hatched with residual yolk and needed to be kept in a cup till the yolk was absorbed. One each of the fresh and refrigerated eggs, both have survived.

So I have 6 viable chicks. The one quitter was from the fresh eggs.

Washing and refrigerating eggs does not seem to affect the ability to incubate the eggs. Though these eggs were no more than 3 days old before being set in the incubator, the hatch results were the same as the fresh eggs I set in the batch.

Congrats on your hatch and the survivor's! I have a split hatch going on over here. The egg's from my flock will be starting to hatch this weekend, and then I also have some shipped egg's that are due to hatch on Nov. 6th.

 

[FeatherPugs]

@Lark60 @cavemanrich I too congratulate you on your hatch. I was also going to remind everyone of the Trader Joe's eggs. A long number of years ago I went and got TJ eggs and set them under a broody hen. More than half hatched. I don't remember all the particulars now other than they were leghorns or some other almost identical white breed. They did not have very long life and were quite fidigity/flighty. Interesting the things we do because we wonder "why". Thanks for sharing. The double yolker?

 

[Lark60]

The double yolker?

Only one chick developed in the double yolk egg and it was a quitter at 2 week of incubating.

 

[FeatherPugs]

Sorry @Lark60 I must have missed that - :-(

 

[BlueBaby]

I've been waiting all day for sign's of hatching over here, but if they hatch overnight while I am sleeping, they will have to just do it without me. I'm not staying up all night.

 

[Michelle Guynn]

Well? Have chicks yet?

 

[BlueBaby]

The green egg that was set on Oct. 6th hasn't hatched, but the green one that was set on Oct. 8th is now out and drying off. It pipped from the small end of the egg and on the underside on top of that. I had to assist it. Waiting for the tan egg that was set on Oct. 9th to hatch out next?