Experiment: Chilled Auction Eggs

[coffeemama]

Well, today a fellow BYCer, shmooborp and I went to the auction to sell some pullets. We were very good, and only came home with a dozen New Hamp hatching eggs to split. We decided to experiment with them because they were very chilled when we bought them. Not sure if anything will develop, but we'll see! Putting them in today or tomorrow morning.

 

[chickenfanatic]

good luck let us know what happens

 

[shmooborp]

LOL!!! i got mine in the kitchen in a new carton and they are nice and snuggled in , i turned them once already , im puting mine in on ither thursday or friday with my eggs that i get from jody

if not then in the bator they go. LOL i sorta wanna put them in the bator so i can see the hatch.

it was wierd cuz u could obviously tell they had been in a fridge, they were cold and had the kinda dew on them. that things get when they are taken from a cold area to a warmer area, like when ice melts in a plastic cup, condensation on the outside,

they also had auracona mix and polish and turkey and BR, but i think the NH are good, plus u cant beet the price we got
LOL

 

[silkiechicken]

You can bring an egg down to freezing temps for 30 min and still hatch them, just hatch rate goes down. There is a book that I forget the name of that uses leghorn and RIR eggs to determine hatching curves after storing eggs at various temps for up to months at a time. It was named something like the avain embryo or along that lines. Best of luck!

 

[shmooborp]

im going to twist the experiament even more and do the carton method when they hatch. that is if they make it that far

 

[shmooborp]

oh btw i put them in the bator, not with the broody, cuz i want her to have all of jodys eggs and if i put these in it might lowe hatch rate. so they ar in the bator and doin good

 

[BirdBoy88]

You just might get something from them.. i got eggs from Tori that she had in the refrigerator for a week and now atleast half of them have growing chicks in them

 

[shmooborp]

AWESOME! it just might work! egor! pull the swith!! muahhhaaaamuaaahhh mauuuaaaahhhhaahahaa!! yes master...

 

[Teresaann24]

Gonna to subscribe to this thread this is gonna be interesting!

 

[BirdBoy88]

Yup

Tori eggs are due to hatch next week

among with a ton of other eggs due next week