Can you hatch store bought fertile eggs-from super market

[hypnofrogstevie]

in my opinion I think colder eggs are better to hatch since the chicks arnt growing. I bought eggs in the summer with no luck but the eggs in fall or winter do much better. Maybe its just me?

 

[chickenranchwife]

Justino just hatched one, and she's doing good.

 

[perrym1962]

I put them in the refrigerator just because someone had said they would not hatch. So I just had to see for myself. And no I would not stick my finger in a light socket. I would like to think I'm not that stupid.

 

[silkiechicken]

There are whole books with carts giving curves on hatchibility of eggs after different time and temperature treatments.

Basically there is an optimal time to store before hatch ability drops, and an optimal temperature before hatchability drops.

In theory, eggs will be "100%" hatchable if stored at 14 deg C for at most something like 10 days. However, eggs can be sitting in a 4 deg C room for 2 days and still make it, but the number that make it will be less. I've had a few hatch from eggs that were almost a month old, just not many.

So increasing time before setting decreases hatchibility and decreasing temperature or increasing temperature beyond "optimal" will decrease hatchability.

However, many factors along the way will determine how well they will hatch, including how they were treated during shipping. I have found the further deviations there are from the best, with best being a rather large range, the more defects and "deaths" there are along the way.

In short, can't hurt to try.

 

[Justino]

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wow im famous lol....mine was refridgerated for god knows how long and she(

) is doing great and is the nicest chick ive ever hatched(LOL out of all 4 of them)

 

[riderken]

Ken NW Mo. Is that any thing like taking all the racks out of the refrigerator an getting in to see if the light is on .but my glass is half full.

 

[chickenlover210]

THanks for the input and please keep it coming

 

[chickenlover210]

Thanks for the info and please keep it coming

 

[K&H Chicken Farm]

Well I went out 10 days ago and got 4 doz store bought eggs. When I candled 23 out of the 48 where developing.

 

[greyfields]

I am 99% cetain that when getting my egg license the USDA requirement was that hens cannot be exposed to a rooster. This is for eggs which are to be graded and sold in grocery stores.

Now when I got my license, I was told that since I am not grading and sizing the eggs, I do not have to follow that requirement and our eggs have been stocked in the grocery store. Ours are just labeled ungraded and unsized, pasture raised, eggs.

If you google "egg battery" or "hen battery" and look at the images, you'll quickly realize that no commercailly raised hen for eggs has even seen a cockrel... let alone had amorous intentions with one.

I will be brutally honest and say given Safeway's business practices they are not dealing with anyone who would be providing anything but homogeneous, factory farmed, lowest cost possible, eggs.