Cooked hatching eggs!!

[TexasVet]

OMG, if you don't know how hot it is in Texas this year, I'm going to tell you. This is a true story, not a tall Texas tale...

I found a dozen eggs that my duck had laid out in the burn pile. I didn't think she'd end up setting, and the burn pile is a bad place anyway, so I brought them in the house, thinking I'd pop 'em in the bator. I candled the eggs, and they looked really odd inside, and the yolks weren't moving. So I cracked a couple of them open to see what was going on. You know what??? They were COOKED! They looked just like boiled eggs, through and through. 9 out of the dozen were cooked, 1 is a maybe, and two look OK.

Have you ever heard of such thing???

Kathy, Bellville TX
www.CountryChickens.com
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[gamebirdsonly]

Never heard of that before dang it must be hot down there.

 

[MaggieRae]

I am not surprised in the least. It's been blazin hot down here.

 

[journey's end]

Cool! I don't wish we ad eat like that. I haven't heard of that happening. We do end up with frozen eggs here in the winter if we don't get them fast enough.

 

[Suziers]

Wow!! Next I want to know if you can fry one on your driveway!!

 

[Eggs4Sale]

I was going to put some eggs under a broody hen, but I'm guessing they'd become hard-boiled too!

119 today in AZ. How about you?

 

[TexasVet]

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I dropped one on the patio on my way into the house, but it dried up in the sun before it could cook. I tried it once, way back in the 60s, and it didn't work then either.

Kathy, Bellville TX
www.CountryChickens.com

 

[TexasVet]

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I think I saw your post earlier today, before I found the eggs, and wasn't sure how to respond. But now my best guess is that the eggs would stay pretty much the body temp of the broody until she left the nest, and then the temp would spike and kill the developing chicks. But that's pure speculation on my part.

If it was up to me, I'd just let her be frustrated until the temps drop down to something more reasonable, or maybe give her a golf ball to hatch. At 119 I don't think the eggs have a snowball's chance of making it to a hatch.

Kathy, Bellville TX
www.CountryChickens.com

 

[Eggs4Sale]

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I think I saw your post earlier today, before I found the eggs, and wasn't sure how to respond. But now my best guess is that the eggs would stay pretty much the body temp of the broody until she left the nest, and then the temp would spike and kill the developing chicks. But that's pure speculation on my part.

If it was up to me, I'd just let her be frustrated until the temps drop down to something more reasonable, or maybe give her a golf ball to hatch. At 119 I don't think the eggs have a snowball's chance of making it to a hatch.

Kathy, Bellville TX
www.CountryChickens.com

I think you're right. Guess she'll just be a crank!