Can't take care of all these chicks!help!

[musicalchickenraiser]

Thanks for your advice.
I'm very new at this(VERY) and I accidentaly let a rooster in with the hens. I figure some of the might be fertile. I'll figure out whitch ones. I'm glad I don't have to let the fertile eggs die. I've put all of the eggs into the incubator just in case.
Can I sell the fertile eggs before they hatch or do I have to let them hatch first?

And sorry evrybody if I ruined your day and all, it's just when I found out some of the eggs might be fertile I kinda panicked. I have limited space so extra chickens are bad. And don't worry I won't kill them(I was panicking when I wrote that).
Again, I'm very sorry If I ruined your day. I'm very new at this(VERY VERY NEW) and I panicked. Very sorry.

 

[jeaucamom]

Where are you??? I am sure there are lots of us who will be interested. Then you will be assured of them having a good home.

 

[MaransGuy]

If the eggs are fertile and you do not hatch them it is not "letting them die". A lot of people have roosters in with their hens and eat the fertile eggs. There is no need to incubate them if you do not have room.

Richard

 

[MissPrissy]

Because a rooster is in a pen with the hens does not mean there are chicks in those eggs. The eggs are exactly the same as any other eggs without a rooster in the pen. The only way you get a chick in those eggs is to incubate them for 24 - 36 hours. Then and only then is there the development of an embryo which will grow into a chick.

Collect the eggs daily from your hen house and store them in the fridge and use them, eat them, cook with them.

You cannot tell which eggs are fertile and which are not without cracking them open and looking for the bulleye indicating it or by incubating them for several days then candling them and looking for signs of veins.

You are not letting anything die if you collect the eggs and use them. Fertile eggs are perfectly fine to eat. If you don't want and cannot take care of chicks stop putting the eggs in the incubator.

There are no chicks in those eggs. You are growing the chicks by incubating them and thereby putting yourself in a corner with chicks that will need a new home.

Stop incubating the eggs. Eat the eggs. Save yourself a lot of confusion and troubles.

 

[musicalchickenraiser]

I will stop incubating them right now. Thanks for the advice everyone. Again I am very new at this so thanks for all the helpful advice.

 

[Dilly]

sorry folks but reading some of these replies I feel like shouting back away from your keyboards.

I think she may of gotten the idea that unless she incubates she can eat those darn eggs. lol

 

[musicalchickenraiser]

Sorry folks for all the confusion. I had a busy week today and I'm very tired and Im very inexpirianced with chickens.

 

[NoelTate]

We all start out inexperienced and make mistakes. That's how we learn

I have had chickens on and off all my life (which is adding up to more years than I care to admit!), and I still have tons to learn!

 

[coffeemama]

I think there was confusion-some us thought you had eggs already in the incubator that you wanted to toss-people eat fresh fertilized eggs all the time. Don't eat them after they have been in the bator though.

 

[gumpsgirl]

Sorry I took your post wrong. I just had visions of a chick massacre going through my mind when I read your initial post. Now that I've read what the real issue was, I understand your dilemma! Sorry once again! Best of luck with your new flock!