Experiment: Chilled Auction Eggs

[Teresaann24]

I have eggs due to hatch monday!

 

[BirdBoy88]

I have eggs due to hatch the 28th and 29th and 31st and the 1st of sept and the 3rd and the 6th....lol

 

[Mrs MIA]

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Has it already been two weeks? Oh my.

I'm so glad they're growing for you!! I found out that some of my shipped eggs had been refrigerated, too, and I got a chick. Someone told me that for a week, week and a half, if you keep them in the refrigerator, it sort of freezes their timers, so it's as if they were all laid on the same day... or something like that. I might be misquoting. As long as you let them come up to temps slowly, you should be ok! After I talked to you, Mark, I took those eggs out of the fridge and they sat on the counter until I shipped them, so they came up slowly. It's the heat that kills them. 85+ for a period of time starts them incubating, then if you cool them off too long they die.

Shmooborp, you may have just gotten a steal! LOL!

 

[denasfarm]

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I just LOVE you guys! So Glad I found people JUST LIKE ME!
I am not strange at all for hatching all the eggs I can and talking about chickens all the time!
Its all those 'OTHER' people that are weird!

Love reading the posts!

 

[Mrs MIA]

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I just LOVE you guys! So Glad I found people JUST LIKE ME!
I am not strange at all for hatching all the eggs I can and talking about chickens all the time!
Its all those 'OTHER' people that are weird!

Love reading the posts!

You're definitely in the right place! I have a calendar printed out so I can keep track of all the staggered hatches!!

I asked for help once... I think I heard laughter from afar...

 

[BirdBoy88]

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I just LOVE you guys! So Glad I found people JUST LIKE ME!
I am not strange at all for hatching all the eggs I can and talking about chickens all the time!
Its all those 'OTHER' people that are weird!

Love reading the posts!

 

[coffeemama]

Well shmoo candled the eggs before he put them in the bator, and they looked very fresh, so that's a positive. In case you didn't figure it out, shmooborp is my counterpart in this experiment

Everything is going well for my eggs, plan to try to hold out until at least day 7 to candle. I've never had this few eggs (6 in my bator, so candling should be super easy

 

[Homegroanacres]

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AAHHHHH

And both of you walked away without any of mine!!

I saw the guy bring the eggs in

Think he said there were 6 doz, so where
did the rest go????? or are you guys fibbin a bit

Kind of funny to have Luke call and here my ducks being auctioned off

Shame on you both of not telling me you were goiing ;(

at least my bator is busy

 

[coffeemama]

LoL John!
Well everyone-the eggs were all duds. Wish we had better news, but oh well. No more $3 auction hatching eggs!

 

[BirdBoy88]

Aw sorry

But hey you gotta try again with this.. my eggs are starting to pip well not the frig eggs yet they will prolly pip tomorrow but before i put them in the hatcher i saw movement in them

so i say try again