EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

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ChickenCanoe said:
:lol:Oh so true. Every time I whine and hit the post button, I then look at the weather and see there are 250 million people in the US going through the same thing or worse and I know y'all don't want to hear about it.
Local weather report today said by the time we get above freezing, it will be the third longest period below freezing in record keeping history.
I actually feel for those who are having bad weather and are totally unprepared. They're getting snow and ice in Lake City, Florida.
Savannah, Georgia is getting 6 inches of snow. Previous record was 3 inches. It has shut down the airport and the whole city. No snow plows.
When I was in the army in Fort Polk Louisiana, we got about a half inch of wet snow. Warm ground/pavement so no freezing. The locals were petrified. They had all of us from a northern climate each drive a civilian home in their car and pick them up for work the next morning.
While we always get a few stretches of zero/subzero weather, normally we have a lot of mild stretches. Our climate was like yours back in 2014, we never got mild weather till April like you either and it was one of the few times we had a deep snow base from December to April.
I doubt if I would have the fortitude to keep chickens in a climate like yours or worse. Having no forage for 4 months a year is hard. I can't imagine not being able to free range for half the year.
If I did, I'd probably keep chickens in a more commercial type building. Large and climate controlled.

Bummer

You're right. Eggs can stay a considerable amount of time at temperatures near freezing without affecting hatchabilty.
An egg spending any amount of time at 28.4F or below will develop ice crystals and permanently damage internal structures. One shouldn't expect such eggs to develop very far.
I think setting such eggs is a waste of time and electricity.
I haven't been able to collect eggs often enough this week to make them reliable as table eggs much less for incubation.
I've been boiling the frozen eggs and feeding them back to the chickens.
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